diff --git a/include/linux/dynamic_debug.h b/include/linux/dynamic_debug.h
index f8c2e17675002ec1508742ad629610a3e76f19da..b3cd4de9432b68007342098ad7dbb662cbc1fce0 100644
--- a/include/linux/dynamic_debug.h
+++ b/include/linux/dynamic_debug.h
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ struct _ddebug {
 	/*
  	 * The flags field controls the behaviour at the callsite.
  	 * The bits here are changed dynamically when the user
- 	 * writes commands to <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/ddebug
+	 * writes commands to <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/control
 	 */
 #define _DPRINTK_FLAGS_PRINT   (1<<0)  /* printk() a message using the format */
 #define _DPRINTK_FLAGS_DEFAULT 0
diff --git a/lib/Kconfig.debug b/lib/Kconfig.debug
index d85be90d5888cb8df619039fb4282e77c9a120ff..2312089483633c64dde14736a4f6da89e9d41bd7 100644
--- a/lib/Kconfig.debug
+++ b/lib/Kconfig.debug
@@ -1039,10 +1039,10 @@ config DYNAMIC_DEBUG
 
 	  Usage:
 
-	  Dynamic debugging is controlled via the 'dynamic_debug/ddebug' file,
+	  Dynamic debugging is controlled via the 'dynamic_debug/control' file,
 	  which is contained in the 'debugfs' filesystem. Thus, the debugfs
 	  filesystem must first be mounted before making use of this feature.
-	  We refer the control file as: <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/ddebug. This
+	  We refer the control file as: <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/control. This
 	  file contains a list of the debug statements that can be enabled. The
 	  format for each line of the file is:
 
@@ -1057,7 +1057,7 @@ config DYNAMIC_DEBUG
 
 	  From a live system:
 
-		nullarbor:~ # cat <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/ddebug
+		nullarbor:~ # cat <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/control
 		# filename:lineno [module]function flags format
 		fs/aio.c:222 [aio]__put_ioctx - "__put_ioctx:\040freeing\040%p\012"
 		fs/aio.c:248 [aio]ioctx_alloc - "ENOMEM:\040nr_events\040too\040high\012"
@@ -1067,23 +1067,23 @@ config DYNAMIC_DEBUG
 
 		// enable the message at line 1603 of file svcsock.c
 		nullarbor:~ # echo -n 'file svcsock.c line 1603 +p' >
-						<debugfs>/dynamic_debug/ddebug
+						<debugfs>/dynamic_debug/control
 
 		// enable all the messages in file svcsock.c
 		nullarbor:~ # echo -n 'file svcsock.c +p' >
-						<debugfs>/dynamic_debug/ddebug
+						<debugfs>/dynamic_debug/control
 
 		// enable all the messages in the NFS server module
 		nullarbor:~ # echo -n 'module nfsd +p' >
-						<debugfs>/dynamic_debug/ddebug
+						<debugfs>/dynamic_debug/control
 
 		// enable all 12 messages in the function svc_process()
 		nullarbor:~ # echo -n 'func svc_process +p' >
-						<debugfs>/dynamic_debug/ddebug
+						<debugfs>/dynamic_debug/control
 
 		// disable all 12 messages in the function svc_process()
 		nullarbor:~ # echo -n 'func svc_process -p' >
-						<debugfs>/dynamic_debug/ddebug
+						<debugfs>/dynamic_debug/control
 
 	  See Documentation/dynamic-debug-howto.txt for additional information.