diff --git a/mm/shmem.c b/mm/shmem.c
index 5588205f4259..56bf122e0bb4 100644
--- a/mm/shmem.c
+++ b/mm/shmem.c
@@ -763,7 +763,7 @@ void shmem_unlock_mapping(struct address_space *mapping)
 }
 
 /*
- * Remove range of pages and swap entries from radix tree, and free them.
+ * Remove range of pages and swap entries from page cache, and free them.
  * If !unfalloc, truncate or punch hole; if unfalloc, undo failed fallocate.
  */
 static void shmem_undo_range(struct inode *inode, loff_t lstart, loff_t lend,
@@ -1143,10 +1143,10 @@ static int shmem_unuse_inode(struct shmem_inode_info *info,
 		 * We needed to drop mutex to make that restrictive page
 		 * allocation, but the inode might have been freed while we
 		 * dropped it: although a racing shmem_evict_inode() cannot
-		 * complete without emptying the radix_tree, our page lock
+		 * complete without emptying the page cache, our page lock
 		 * on this swapcache page is not enough to prevent that -
 		 * free_swap_and_cache() of our swap entry will only
-		 * trylock_page(), removing swap from radix_tree whatever.
+		 * trylock_page(), removing swap from page cache whatever.
 		 *
 		 * We must not proceed to shmem_add_to_page_cache() if the
 		 * inode has been freed, but of course we cannot rely on
@@ -1212,7 +1212,7 @@ int shmem_unuse(swp_entry_t swap, struct page *page)
 					    &memcg, false);
 	if (error)
 		goto out;
-	/* No radix_tree_preload: swap entry keeps a place for page in tree */
+	/* No memory allocation: swap entry occupies the slot for the page */
 	error = -EAGAIN;
 
 	mutex_lock(&shmem_swaplist_mutex);
@@ -1887,7 +1887,7 @@ unlock:
 		spin_unlock_irq(&info->lock);
 		goto repeat;
 	}
-	if (error == -EEXIST)	/* from above or from radix_tree_insert */
+	if (error == -EEXIST)
 		goto repeat;
 	return error;
 }
@@ -2501,7 +2501,7 @@ static ssize_t shmem_file_read_iter(struct kiocb *iocb, struct iov_iter *to)
 }
 
 /*
- * llseek SEEK_DATA or SEEK_HOLE through the radix_tree.
+ * llseek SEEK_DATA or SEEK_HOLE through the page cache.
  */
 static pgoff_t shmem_seek_hole_data(struct address_space *mapping,
 				    pgoff_t index, pgoff_t end, int whence)