diff --git a/mm/slab.c b/mm/slab.c
index 0781a2384441c7486e94a5b6fdc8717da44e0c48..390e249aaa8d3492444aa170188a64a6a81fdf7e 100644
--- a/mm/slab.c
+++ b/mm/slab.c
@@ -1060,7 +1060,7 @@ int slab_prepare_cpu(unsigned int cpu)
  * offline.
  *
  * Even if all the cpus of a node are down, we don't free the
- * kmem_list3 of any cache. This to avoid a race between cpu_down, and
+ * kmem_cache_node of any cache. This to avoid a race between cpu_down, and
  * a kmalloc allocation from another cpu for memory from the node of
  * the cpu going down.  The list3 structure is usually allocated from
  * kmem_cache_create() and gets destroyed at kmem_cache_destroy().