diff --git a/fs/bio.c b/fs/bio.c
index 73922abba832..5eaa70c9d96e 100644
--- a/fs/bio.c
+++ b/fs/bio.c
@@ -1312,7 +1312,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(bio_copy_kern);
  * Note that this code is very hard to test under normal circumstances because
  * direct-io pins the pages with get_user_pages().  This makes
  * is_page_cache_freeable return false, and the VM will not clean the pages.
- * But other code (eg, pdflush) could clean the pages if they are mapped
+ * But other code (eg, flusher threads) could clean the pages if they are mapped
  * pagecache.
  *
  * Simply disabling the call to bio_set_pages_dirty() is a good way to test the
diff --git a/include/linux/writeback.h b/include/linux/writeback.h
index c66fe3332d83..50c3e8fa06a8 100644
--- a/include/linux/writeback.h
+++ b/include/linux/writeback.h
@@ -104,7 +104,6 @@ static inline void wait_on_inode(struct inode *inode)
 	wait_on_bit(&inode->i_state, __I_NEW, inode_wait, TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE);
 }
 
-
 /*
  * mm/page-writeback.c
  */