diff --git a/Documentation/RCU/Design/Memory-Ordering/Tree-RCU-Memory-Ordering.html b/Documentation/RCU/Design/Memory-Ordering/Tree-RCU-Memory-Ordering.html
index a3acfd49255f..8d21af02b1f0 100644
--- a/Documentation/RCU/Design/Memory-Ordering/Tree-RCU-Memory-Ordering.html
+++ b/Documentation/RCU/Design/Memory-Ordering/Tree-RCU-Memory-Ordering.html
@@ -491,7 +491,7 @@ in a per-CPU variable.
 
 <p>The next time an <tt>RCU_SOFTIRQ</tt> handler executes on
 this CPU (for example, after the next scheduler-clock
-interrupt), <tt>__rcu_process_callbacks()</tt> will invoke
+interrupt), <tt>rcu_core()</tt> will invoke
 <tt>rcu_check_quiescent_state()</tt>, which will notice the
 recorded quiescent state, and invoke
 <tt>rcu_report_qs_rdp()</tt>.
diff --git a/Documentation/RCU/Design/Memory-Ordering/TreeRCU-gp.svg b/Documentation/RCU/Design/Memory-Ordering/TreeRCU-gp.svg
index f0bbe6f8d729..2bcd742d6e49 100644
--- a/Documentation/RCU/Design/Memory-Ordering/TreeRCU-gp.svg
+++ b/Documentation/RCU/Design/Memory-Ordering/TreeRCU-gp.svg
@@ -3924,7 +3924,7 @@
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          x="3745.7725"
-         xml:space="preserve">rcu_process_callbacks()</text>
+         xml:space="preserve">rcu_core()</text>
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@@ -3933,7 +3933,7 @@
          font-style="normal"
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          x="3745.7725"
-         xml:space="preserve">rcu_check_quiescent_state())</text>
+         xml:space="preserve">rcu_check_quiescent_state()</text>
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diff --git a/Documentation/RCU/Design/Memory-Ordering/TreeRCU-qs.svg b/Documentation/RCU/Design/Memory-Ordering/TreeRCU-qs.svg
index 3596ffdd4685..779c9ac31a52 100644
--- a/Documentation/RCU/Design/Memory-Ordering/TreeRCU-qs.svg
+++ b/Documentation/RCU/Design/Memory-Ordering/TreeRCU-qs.svg
@@ -797,7 +797,7 @@
          font-style="normal"
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          x="3745.7725"
-         xml:space="preserve">rcu_process_callbacks()</text>
+         xml:space="preserve">rcu_core()</text>
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@@ -806,7 +806,7 @@
          font-style="normal"
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          x="3745.7725"
-         xml:space="preserve">rcu_check_quiescent_state())</text>
+         xml:space="preserve">rcu_check_quiescent_state()</text>
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diff --git a/kernel/rcu/tree.c b/kernel/rcu/tree.c
index 874054b30fe6..e67f8dc1894b 100644
--- a/kernel/rcu/tree.c
+++ b/kernel/rcu/tree.c
@@ -2742,12 +2742,8 @@ void rcu_fwd_progress_check(unsigned long j)
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(rcu_fwd_progress_check);
 
-/*
- * This does the RCU core processing work for the specified rcu_data
- * structures.  This may be called only from the CPU to whom the rdp
- * belongs.
- */
-static __latent_entropy void rcu_process_callbacks(struct softirq_action *unused)
+/* Perform RCU core processing work for the current CPU.  */
+static __latent_entropy void rcu_core(struct softirq_action *unused)
 {
 	unsigned long flags;
 	struct rcu_data *rdp = raw_cpu_ptr(&rcu_data);
@@ -3856,7 +3852,7 @@ void __init rcu_init(void)
 	rcu_init_one();
 	if (dump_tree)
 		rcu_dump_rcu_node_tree();
-	open_softirq(RCU_SOFTIRQ, rcu_process_callbacks);
+	open_softirq(RCU_SOFTIRQ, rcu_core);
 
 	/*
 	 * We don't need protection against CPU-hotplug here because