diff --git a/sys/kern/kern_malloc.c b/sys/kern/kern_malloc.c
index 3b169d53b21c..80007fb18d69 100644
--- a/sys/kern/kern_malloc.c
+++ b/sys/kern/kern_malloc.c
@@ -618,7 +618,7 @@ kmeminit(void *dummy)
 		vm_kmem_size = 2 * cnt.v_page_count * PAGE_SIZE;
 
 	/*
-	 * Tune settings based on the kernel map's size at this time.
+	 * Tune settings based on the kmem map's size at this time.
 	 */
 	init_param3(vm_kmem_size / PAGE_SIZE);
 
diff --git a/sys/kern/subr_param.c b/sys/kern/subr_param.c
index 39fd4a9d35d8..89150acf2cd8 100644
--- a/sys/kern/subr_param.c
+++ b/sys/kern/subr_param.c
@@ -191,14 +191,14 @@ init_param2(long physpages)
 }
 
 /*
- * Boot time overrides that are scaled against the kernel map
+ * Boot time overrides that are scaled against the kmem map
  */
 void
 init_param3(long kmempages)
 {
 
 	/*
-	 * The default for maxpipekva is max(5% of the kernel map, 512KB).
+	 * The default for maxpipekva is max(5% of the kmem map, 512KB).
 	 * See sys_pipe.c for more details.
 	 */
 	maxpipekva = (kmempages / 20) * PAGE_SIZE;