diff --git a/kernel/sched/fair.c b/kernel/sched/fair.c
index 8f641c9e74a8..ae8095aa4585 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/fair.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/fair.c
@@ -12868,9 +12868,9 @@ static int sched_balance_newidle(struct rq *this_rq, struct rq_flags *rf)
 /*
  * This softirq handler is triggered via SCHED_SOFTIRQ from two places:
  *
- * - directly from the local scheduler_tick() for periodic load balancing
+ * - directly from the local sched_tick() for periodic load balancing
  *
- * - indirectly from a remote scheduler_tick() for NOHZ idle balancing
+ * - indirectly from a remote sched_tick() for NOHZ idle balancing
  *   through the SMP cross-call nohz_csd_func()
  */
 static __latent_entropy void sched_balance_softirq(void)