diff --git a/kernel/kthread.c b/kernel/kthread.c
index fbb6222fe7e0..82ed0ea15194 100644
--- a/kernel/kthread.c
+++ b/kernel/kthread.c
@@ -101,7 +101,7 @@ static void create_kthread(struct kthread_create_info *create)
  *
  * Description: This helper function creates and names a kernel
  * thread.  The thread will be stopped: use wake_up_process() to start
- * it.  See also kthread_run(), kthread_create_on_cpu().
+ * it.  See also kthread_run().
  *
  * When woken, the thread will run @threadfn() with @data as its
  * argument. @threadfn() can either call do_exit() directly if it is a