diff --git a/kernel/cgroup/cgroup.c b/kernel/cgroup/cgroup.c
index 6aaf5dd5383b..7a8429f8e280 100644
--- a/kernel/cgroup/cgroup.c
+++ b/kernel/cgroup/cgroup.c
@@ -5343,7 +5343,7 @@ int __init cgroup_init(void)
 	cgroup_rstat_boot();
 
 	/*
-	 * The latency of the synchronize_sched() is too high for cgroups,
+	 * The latency of the synchronize_rcu() is too high for cgroups,
 	 * avoid it at the cost of forcing all readers into the slow path.
 	 */
 	rcu_sync_enter_start(&cgroup_threadgroup_rwsem.rss);