diff --git a/Documentation/dev-tools/gcov.rst b/Documentation/dev-tools/gcov.rst
index 19eedfea8800db38adb5382c571bb951e3206c4a..69a7d90c320ad983f1120b9f6eab4eb12b6712d4 100644
--- a/Documentation/dev-tools/gcov.rst
+++ b/Documentation/dev-tools/gcov.rst
@@ -201,7 +201,9 @@ Appendix A: gather_on_build.sh
 ------------------------------
 
 Sample script to gather coverage meta files on the build machine
-(see 6a)::
+(see 6a):
+
+.. code-block:: sh
 
     #!/bin/bash
 
@@ -232,7 +234,9 @@ Appendix B: gather_on_test.sh
 -----------------------------
 
 Sample script to gather coverage data files on the test machine
-(see 6b)::
+(see 6b):
+
+.. code-block:: sh
 
     #!/bin/bash -e
 
diff --git a/Documentation/dev-tools/kcov.rst b/Documentation/dev-tools/kcov.rst
index aca0e27ca19727938423c30dea59ee9724f72904..2c41b713841fd497a95b57054ed9d6998625b71e 100644
--- a/Documentation/dev-tools/kcov.rst
+++ b/Documentation/dev-tools/kcov.rst
@@ -24,7 +24,9 @@ Profiling data will only become accessible once debugfs has been mounted::
 
         mount -t debugfs none /sys/kernel/debug
 
-The following program demonstrates kcov usage from within a test program::
+The following program demonstrates kcov usage from within a test program:
+
+.. code-block:: c
 
     #include <stdio.h>
     #include <stddef.h>