diff --git a/src/libvirt.c b/src/libvirt.c
index 3b4d360c932219c8a6283942a424036b366250e7..444c1c329371e135ad12085d7cceaf66b0515e45 100644
--- a/src/libvirt.c
+++ b/src/libvirt.c
@@ -7661,7 +7661,7 @@ error:
  * @flags: extra flags; not used yet, so callers should always pass 0
  *
  * This function provides memory stats of the node.
- * If you want to get total cpu statistics of the node, you must specify
+ * If you want to get total memory statistics of the node, you must specify
  * VIR_NODE_MEMORY_STATS_ALL_CELLS to @cellNum.
  * The @params array will be filled with the values equal to the number of
  * stats suggested by @nparams