diff --git a/include/linux/mempolicy.h b/include/linux/mempolicy.h
index 507bf5e29f2436dbe5fbeafd1c733dad01c1bc13..5e19c2275a6fc0dc7f7203832f6b46aabd872d31 100644
--- a/include/linux/mempolicy.h
+++ b/include/linux/mempolicy.h
@@ -73,10 +73,10 @@ struct mm_struct;
  * Mempolicy objects are reference counted.  A mempolicy will be freed when
  * mpol_put() decrements the reference count to zero.
  *
- * Copying policy objects:
- * mpol_copy() allocates a new mempolicy and copies the specified mempolicy
+ * Duplicating policy objects:
+ * mpol_dup() allocates a new mempolicy and copies the specified mempolicy
  * to the new storage.  The reference count of the new object is initialized
- * to 1, representing the caller of mpol_copy().
+ * to 1, representing the caller of mpol_dup().
  */
 struct mempolicy {
 	atomic_t refcnt;
@@ -105,11 +105,11 @@ static inline void mpol_put(struct mempolicy *pol)
 		__mpol_put(pol);
 }
 
-extern struct mempolicy *__mpol_copy(struct mempolicy *pol);
-static inline struct mempolicy *mpol_copy(struct mempolicy *pol)
+extern struct mempolicy *__mpol_dup(struct mempolicy *pol);
+static inline struct mempolicy *mpol_dup(struct mempolicy *pol)
 {
 	if (pol)
-		pol = __mpol_copy(pol);
+		pol = __mpol_dup(pol);
 	return pol;
 }
 
@@ -198,7 +198,7 @@ static inline void mpol_get(struct mempolicy *pol)
 {
 }
 
-static inline struct mempolicy *mpol_copy(struct mempolicy *old)
+static inline struct mempolicy *mpol_dup(struct mempolicy *old)
 {
 	return NULL;
 }
diff --git a/kernel/cpuset.c b/kernel/cpuset.c
index c9923e3c9a3bcf6c3a762da6dc24744a5b9062d9..024888bb9814478b718d5de894f0eb5f0b0e1d72 100644
--- a/kernel/cpuset.c
+++ b/kernel/cpuset.c
@@ -941,7 +941,7 @@ static int update_nodemask(struct cpuset *cs, char *buf)
 	cs->mems_generation = cpuset_mems_generation++;
 	mutex_unlock(&callback_mutex);
 
-	cpuset_being_rebound = cs;		/* causes mpol_copy() rebind */
+	cpuset_being_rebound = cs;		/* causes mpol_dup() rebind */
 
 	fudge = 10;				/* spare mmarray[] slots */
 	fudge += cpus_weight(cs->cpus_allowed);	/* imagine one fork-bomb/cpu */
@@ -992,7 +992,7 @@ static int update_nodemask(struct cpuset *cs, char *buf)
 	 * rebind the vma mempolicies of each mm in mmarray[] to their
 	 * new cpuset, and release that mm.  The mpol_rebind_mm()
 	 * call takes mmap_sem, which we couldn't take while holding
-	 * tasklist_lock.  Forks can happen again now - the mpol_copy()
+	 * tasklist_lock.  Forks can happen again now - the mpol_dup()
 	 * cpuset_being_rebound check will catch such forks, and rebind
 	 * their vma mempolicies too.  Because we still hold the global
 	 * cgroup_mutex, we know that no other rebind effort will
diff --git a/kernel/fork.c b/kernel/fork.c
index 1a5ae208457488756d378b38a0bd60cf07e0c9ee..6067e429f2816ecd71990c4991354933d129502f 100644
--- a/kernel/fork.c
+++ b/kernel/fork.c
@@ -279,7 +279,7 @@ static int dup_mmap(struct mm_struct *mm, struct mm_struct *oldmm)
 		if (!tmp)
 			goto fail_nomem;
 		*tmp = *mpnt;
-		pol = mpol_copy(vma_policy(mpnt));
+		pol = mpol_dup(vma_policy(mpnt));
 		retval = PTR_ERR(pol);
 		if (IS_ERR(pol))
 			goto fail_nomem_policy;
@@ -1116,7 +1116,7 @@ static struct task_struct *copy_process(unsigned long clone_flags,
 	p->audit_context = NULL;
 	cgroup_fork(p);
 #ifdef CONFIG_NUMA
- 	p->mempolicy = mpol_copy(p->mempolicy);
+	p->mempolicy = mpol_dup(p->mempolicy);
  	if (IS_ERR(p->mempolicy)) {
  		retval = PTR_ERR(p->mempolicy);
  		p->mempolicy = NULL;
diff --git a/mm/mempolicy.c b/mm/mempolicy.c
index ce2c5b6bf9f86722cafd03aab8e0fe725e12bf61..e9fc1c1ae66c6a328700720d1151118188b9aa79 100644
--- a/mm/mempolicy.c
+++ b/mm/mempolicy.c
@@ -1566,15 +1566,15 @@ struct page *alloc_pages_current(gfp_t gfp, unsigned order)
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(alloc_pages_current);
 
 /*
- * If mpol_copy() sees current->cpuset == cpuset_being_rebound, then it
+ * If mpol_dup() sees current->cpuset == cpuset_being_rebound, then it
  * rebinds the mempolicy its copying by calling mpol_rebind_policy()
  * with the mems_allowed returned by cpuset_mems_allowed().  This
  * keeps mempolicies cpuset relative after its cpuset moves.  See
  * further kernel/cpuset.c update_nodemask().
  */
 
-/* Slow path of a mempolicy copy */
-struct mempolicy *__mpol_copy(struct mempolicy *old)
+/* Slow path of a mempolicy duplicate */
+struct mempolicy *__mpol_dup(struct mempolicy *old)
 {
 	struct mempolicy *new = kmem_cache_alloc(policy_cache, GFP_KERNEL);
 
diff --git a/mm/mmap.c b/mm/mmap.c
index 36c85e04fa932e2f4ccd6e334f0537a9acc7b162..677d184b0d42d0d9d10311569872589b7a1e2ef4 100644
--- a/mm/mmap.c
+++ b/mm/mmap.c
@@ -1810,7 +1810,7 @@ int split_vma(struct mm_struct * mm, struct vm_area_struct * vma,
 		new->vm_pgoff += ((addr - vma->vm_start) >> PAGE_SHIFT);
 	}
 
-	pol = mpol_copy(vma_policy(vma));
+	pol = mpol_dup(vma_policy(vma));
 	if (IS_ERR(pol)) {
 		kmem_cache_free(vm_area_cachep, new);
 		return PTR_ERR(pol);
@@ -2126,7 +2126,7 @@ struct vm_area_struct *copy_vma(struct vm_area_struct **vmap,
 		new_vma = kmem_cache_alloc(vm_area_cachep, GFP_KERNEL);
 		if (new_vma) {
 			*new_vma = *vma;
-			pol = mpol_copy(vma_policy(vma));
+			pol = mpol_dup(vma_policy(vma));
 			if (IS_ERR(pol)) {
 				kmem_cache_free(vm_area_cachep, new_vma);
 				return NULL;