diff --git a/qemu-options.hx b/qemu-options.hx
index 8965dabc83..6b72617844 100644
--- a/qemu-options.hx
+++ b/qemu-options.hx
@@ -196,17 +196,17 @@ SRST
 ERST
 
 DEF("smp", HAS_ARG, QEMU_OPTION_smp,
-    "-smp [cpus=]n[,maxcpus=cpus][,cores=cores][,threads=threads][,dies=dies][,sockets=sockets]\n"
+    "-smp [cpus=]n[,maxcpus=cpus][,sockets=sockets][,dies=dies][,cores=cores][,threads=threads]\n"
     "                set the number of CPUs to 'n' [default=1]\n"
-    "                maxcpus= maximum number of total cpus, including\n"
+    "                maxcpus= maximum number of total CPUs, including\n"
     "                offline CPUs for hotplug, etc\n"
-    "                cores= number of CPU cores on one socket (for PC, it's on one die)\n"
-    "                threads= number of threads on one CPU core\n"
+    "                sockets= number of discrete sockets in the system\n"
     "                dies= number of CPU dies on one socket (for PC only)\n"
-    "                sockets= number of discrete sockets in the system\n",
+    "                cores= number of CPU cores on one socket (for PC, it's on one die)\n"
+    "                threads= number of threads on one CPU core\n",
         QEMU_ARCH_ALL)
 SRST
-``-smp [cpus=]n[,cores=cores][,threads=threads][,dies=dies][,sockets=sockets][,maxcpus=maxcpus]``
+``-smp [cpus=]n[,maxcpus=maxcpus][,sockets=sockets][,dies=dies][,cores=cores][,threads=threads]``
     Simulate an SMP system with n CPUs. On the PC target, up to 255 CPUs
     are supported. On Sparc32 target, Linux limits the number of usable
     CPUs to 4. For the PC target, the number of cores per die, the