diff --git a/mm/rmap.c b/mm/rmap.c
index e26ae119a131b54bd408f1b5906d551549ed4b8e..f6f43620cd977efa392f39878b593e90757d65a9 100644
--- a/mm/rmap.c
+++ b/mm/rmap.c
@@ -168,7 +168,7 @@ static void anon_vma_chain_link(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
  *
  * Anon-vma allocations are very subtle, because we may have
  * optimistically looked up an anon_vma in page_lock_anon_vma_read()
- * and that may actually touch the spinlock even in the newly
+ * and that may actually touch the rwsem even in the newly
  * allocated vma (it depends on RCU to make sure that the
  * anon_vma isn't actually destroyed).
  *
@@ -359,7 +359,7 @@ int anon_vma_fork(struct vm_area_struct *vma, struct vm_area_struct *pvma)
 		goto out_error_free_anon_vma;
 
 	/*
-	 * The root anon_vma's spinlock is the lock actually used when we
+	 * The root anon_vma's rwsem is the lock actually used when we
 	 * lock any of the anon_vmas in this anon_vma tree.
 	 */
 	anon_vma->root = pvma->anon_vma->root;