diff --git a/mm/mempool.c b/mm/mempool.c
index ccd8cb8..cc1ca86 100644
--- a/mm/mempool.c
+++ b/mm/mempool.c
@@ -46,9 +46,9 @@
  * @pool_data: optional private data available to the user-defined functions.
  *
  * this function creates and allocates a guaranteed size, preallocated
- * memory pool. The pool can be used from the mempool_alloc and mempool_free
+ * memory pool. The pool can be used from the mempool_alloc() and mempool_free()
  * functions. This function might sleep. Both the alloc_fn() and the free_fn()
- * functions might sleep - as long as the mempool_alloc function is not called
+ * functions might sleep - as long as the mempool_alloc() function is not called
  * from IRQ contexts.
  */
 mempool_t *mempool_create(int min_nr, mempool_alloc_t *alloc_fn,
@@ -195,7 +195,7 @@
  *             mempool_create().
  * @gfp_mask:  the usual allocation bitmask.
  *
- * this function only sleeps if the alloc_fn function sleeps or
+ * this function only sleeps if the alloc_fn() function sleeps or
  * returns NULL. Note that due to preallocation, this function
  * *never* fails when called from process contexts. (it might
  * fail if called from an IRQ context.)