diff --git a/scripts/recordmcount.pl b/scripts/recordmcount.pl
index 409596eca124..0fae7da0529c 100755
--- a/scripts/recordmcount.pl
+++ b/scripts/recordmcount.pl
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@
 # which will also be the location of that section after final link.
 # e.g.
 #
-#  .section ".text.sched"
+#  .section ".sched.text", "ax"
 #  .globl my_func
 #  my_func:
 #        [...]
@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@
 #        [...]
 #
 # Both relocation offsets for the mcounts in the above example will be
-# offset from .text.sched. If we make another file called tmp.s with:
+# offset from .sched.text. If we make another file called tmp.s with:
 #
 #  .section __mcount_loc
 #  .quad  my_func + 0x5
@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@
 # But this gets hard if my_func is not globl (a static function).
 # In such a case we have:
 #
-#  .section ".text.sched"
+#  .section ".sched.text", "ax"
 #  my_func:
 #        [...]
 #        call mcount  (offset: 0x5)