diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/thermal/exynos-thermal.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/thermal/exynos-thermal.txt
index 284f5300fd8b..a1aa6023d248 100644
--- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/thermal/exynos-thermal.txt
+++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/thermal/exynos-thermal.txt
@@ -11,8 +11,8 @@
 - reg : Address range of the thermal registers. For soc's which has multiple
 	instances of TMU and some registers are shared across all TMU's like
 	interrupt related then 2 set of register has to supplied. First set
-	belongs	to each instance of TMU and second set belongs to common TMU
-	registers.
+	belongs	to register set of TMU instance and second set belongs to
+	registers shared with the TMU instance.
 - interrupts : Should contain interrupt for thermal system
 - clocks : The main clock for TMU device
 - clock-names : Thermal system clock name
diff --git a/drivers/thermal/samsung/exynos_tmu.c b/drivers/thermal/samsung/exynos_tmu.c
index c308a3d9c0ea..d9e7663fea8c 100644
--- a/drivers/thermal/samsung/exynos_tmu.c
+++ b/drivers/thermal/samsung/exynos_tmu.c
@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@
  * @id: identifier of the one instance of the TMU controller.
  * @pdata: pointer to the tmu platform/configuration data
  * @base: base address of the single instance of the TMU controller.
- * @base_common: base address of the common registers of the TMU controller.
+ * @base_second: base address of the common registers of the TMU controller.
  * @irq: irq number of the TMU controller.
  * @soc: id of the SOC type.
  * @irq_work: pointer to the irq work structure.
@@ -56,7 +56,7 @@ struct exynos_tmu_data {
 	int id;
 	struct exynos_tmu_platform_data *pdata;
 	void __iomem *base;
-	void __iomem *base_common;
+	void __iomem *base_second;
 	int irq;
 	enum soc_type soc;
 	struct work_struct irq_work;
@@ -298,7 +298,7 @@ skip_calib_data:
 	}
 	/*Clear the PMIN in the common TMU register*/
 	if (reg->tmu_pmin && !data->id)
-		writel(0, data->base_common + reg->tmu_pmin);
+		writel(0, data->base_second + reg->tmu_pmin);
 out:
 	clk_disable(data->clk);
 	mutex_unlock(&data->lock);
@@ -455,7 +455,7 @@ static void exynos_tmu_work(struct work_struct *work)
 
 	/* Find which sensor generated this interrupt */
 	if (reg->tmu_irqstatus) {
-		val_type = readl(data->base_common + reg->tmu_irqstatus);
+		val_type = readl(data->base_second + reg->tmu_irqstatus);
 		if (!((val_type >> data->id) & 0x1))
 			goto out;
 	}
@@ -580,7 +580,7 @@ static int exynos_map_dt_data(struct platform_device *pdev)
 	 * Check if the TMU shares some registers and then try to map the
 	 * memory of common registers.
 	 */
-	if (!TMU_SUPPORTS(pdata, SHARED_MEMORY))
+	if (!TMU_SUPPORTS(pdata, ADDRESS_MULTIPLE))
 		return 0;
 
 	if (of_address_to_resource(pdev->dev.of_node, 1, &res)) {
@@ -588,9 +588,9 @@ static int exynos_map_dt_data(struct platform_device *pdev)
 		return -ENODEV;
 	}
 
-	data->base_common = devm_ioremap(&pdev->dev, res.start,
+	data->base_second = devm_ioremap(&pdev->dev, res.start,
 					resource_size(&res));
-	if (!data->base_common) {
+	if (!data->base_second) {
 		dev_err(&pdev->dev, "Failed to ioremap memory\n");
 		return -ENOMEM;
 	}
diff --git a/drivers/thermal/samsung/exynos_tmu.h b/drivers/thermal/samsung/exynos_tmu.h
index 980859a6ad1c..0d6b32fb0a4c 100644
--- a/drivers/thermal/samsung/exynos_tmu.h
+++ b/drivers/thermal/samsung/exynos_tmu.h
@@ -60,7 +60,7 @@ enum soc_type {
  *			state(active/idle) can be checked.
  * TMU_SUPPORT_EMUL_TIME - This features allows to set next temp emulation
  *			sample time.
- * TMU_SUPPORT_SHARED_MEMORY - This feature tells that the different TMU
+ * TMU_SUPPORT_ADDRESS_MULTIPLE - This feature tells that the different TMU
  *			sensors shares some common registers.
  * TMU_SUPPORT - macro to compare the above features with the supplied.
  */
@@ -70,7 +70,7 @@ enum soc_type {
 #define TMU_SUPPORT_FALLING_TRIP		BIT(3)
 #define TMU_SUPPORT_READY_STATUS		BIT(4)
 #define TMU_SUPPORT_EMUL_TIME			BIT(5)
-#define TMU_SUPPORT_SHARED_MEMORY		BIT(6)
+#define TMU_SUPPORT_ADDRESS_MULTIPLE		BIT(6)
 
 #define TMU_SUPPORTS(a, b)	(a->features & TMU_SUPPORT_ ## b)
 
diff --git a/drivers/thermal/samsung/exynos_tmu_data.c b/drivers/thermal/samsung/exynos_tmu_data.c
index 7d58219b8604..9816294f7058 100644
--- a/drivers/thermal/samsung/exynos_tmu_data.c
+++ b/drivers/thermal/samsung/exynos_tmu_data.c
@@ -255,7 +255,7 @@ static const struct exynos_tmu_registers exynos5440_tmu_registers = {
 	.type = SOC_ARCH_EXYNOS5440, \
 	.registers = &exynos5440_tmu_registers, \
 	.features = (TMU_SUPPORT_EMULATION | TMU_SUPPORT_FALLING_TRIP | \
-			TMU_SUPPORT_MULTI_INST | TMU_SUPPORT_SHARED_MEMORY),
+			TMU_SUPPORT_MULTI_INST | TMU_SUPPORT_ADDRESS_MULTIPLE),
 
 struct exynos_tmu_init_data const exynos5440_default_tmu_data = {
 	.tmu_data = {