diff --git a/arch/i386/Kconfig.debug b/arch/i386/Kconfig.debug
index c23da8896f39..6e97df6979e8 100644
--- a/arch/i386/Kconfig.debug
+++ b/arch/i386/Kconfig.debug
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ comment "Page alloc debug is incompatible with Software Suspend on i386"
 	depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && SOFTWARE_SUSPEND
 
 config DEBUG_PAGEALLOC
-	bool "Page alloc debugging"
+	bool "Debug page memory allocations"
 	depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && !SOFTWARE_SUSPEND && !HUGETLBFS
 	help
 	  Unmap pages from the kernel linear mapping after free_pages().
diff --git a/arch/m32r/Kconfig.debug b/arch/m32r/Kconfig.debug
index bbf711bab69e..2e1019ddbb22 100644
--- a/arch/m32r/Kconfig.debug
+++ b/arch/m32r/Kconfig.debug
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ config DEBUG_STACK_USAGE
 	  This option will slow down process creation somewhat.
 
 config DEBUG_PAGEALLOC
-	bool "Page alloc debugging"
+	bool "Debug page memory allocations"
 	depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && BROKEN
 	help
 	  Unmap pages from the kernel linear mapping after free_pages().
diff --git a/arch/sparc64/Kconfig.debug b/arch/sparc64/Kconfig.debug
index 3e31be494e54..afe0a7720a26 100644
--- a/arch/sparc64/Kconfig.debug
+++ b/arch/sparc64/Kconfig.debug
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ config DEBUG_BOOTMEM
 	bool "Debug BOOTMEM initialization"
 
 config DEBUG_PAGEALLOC
-	bool "Page alloc debugging"
+	bool "Debug page memory allocations"
 	depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && !SOFTWARE_SUSPEND
 	help
 	  Unmap pages from the kernel linear mapping after free_pages().
diff --git a/lib/Kconfig.debug b/lib/Kconfig.debug
index 1fe3f897145f..0bda3c5259f7 100644
--- a/lib/Kconfig.debug
+++ b/lib/Kconfig.debug
@@ -78,7 +78,7 @@ config SCHEDSTATS
 	  this adds.
 
 config DEBUG_SLAB
-	bool "Debug memory allocations"
+	bool "Debug slab memory allocations"
 	depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && SLAB
 	help
 	  Say Y here to have the kernel do limited verification on memory