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diff --git a/mm/dmapool.c b/mm/dmapool.c
index 5be8cc1c6529..5d8af6e29127 100644
--- a/mm/dmapool.c
+++ b/mm/dmapool.c
@@ -200,7 +200,7 @@ static void pool_block_push(struct dma_pool *pool, struct dma_block *block,
/**
- * dma_pool_create_node - Creates a pool of consistent memory blocks, for dma.
+ * dma_pool_create_node - Creates a pool of coherent DMA memory blocks.
* @name: name of pool, for diagnostics
* @dev: device that will be doing the DMA
* @size: size of the blocks in this pool.
@@ -210,7 +210,7 @@ static void pool_block_push(struct dma_pool *pool, struct dma_block *block,
* Context: not in_interrupt()
*
* Given one of these pools, dma_pool_alloc()
- * may be used to allocate memory. Such memory will all have "consistent"
+ * may be used to allocate memory. Such memory will all have coherent
* DMA mappings, accessible by the device and its driver without using
* cache flushing primitives. The actual size of blocks allocated may be
* larger than requested because of alignment.
@@ -395,7 +395,7 @@ void dma_pool_destroy(struct dma_pool *pool)
EXPORT_SYMBOL(dma_pool_destroy);
/**
- * dma_pool_alloc - get a block of consistent memory
+ * dma_pool_alloc - get a block of coherent memory
* @pool: dma pool that will produce the block
* @mem_flags: GFP_* bitmask
* @handle: pointer to dma address of block