diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_atomic.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_atomic.c
index 2fabd8c4fd88f37367837a6df3a2431373244923..0b526423f19f07fa0b13553a3dffee3e28ef83e6 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_atomic.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_atomic.c
@@ -145,7 +145,7 @@ void drm_atomic_state_default_clear(struct drm_atomic_state *state)
 			continue;
 
 		/*
-		 * FIXME: Async commits can race with connector unplugging and
+		 * FIXME: Nonblocking commits can race with connector unplugging and
 		 * there's currently nothing that prevents cleanup up state for
 		 * deleted connectors. As long as the callback doesn't look at
 		 * the connector we'll be fine though, so make sure that's the
@@ -1390,7 +1390,7 @@ int drm_atomic_commit(struct drm_atomic_state *state)
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(drm_atomic_commit);
 
 /**
- * drm_atomic_async_commit - atomic&async configuration commit
+ * drm_atomic_nonblocking_commit - atomic&nonblocking configuration commit
  * @state: atomic configuration to check
  *
  * Note that this function can return -EDEADLK if the driver needed to acquire
@@ -1405,7 +1405,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(drm_atomic_commit);
  * Returns:
  * 0 on success, negative error code on failure.
  */
-int drm_atomic_async_commit(struct drm_atomic_state *state)
+int drm_atomic_nonblocking_commit(struct drm_atomic_state *state)
 {
 	struct drm_mode_config *config = &state->dev->mode_config;
 	int ret;
@@ -1414,11 +1414,11 @@ int drm_atomic_async_commit(struct drm_atomic_state *state)
 	if (ret)
 		return ret;
 
-	DRM_DEBUG_ATOMIC("commiting %p asynchronously\n", state);
+	DRM_DEBUG_ATOMIC("commiting %p nonblocking\n", state);
 
 	return config->funcs->atomic_commit(state->dev, state, true);
 }
-EXPORT_SYMBOL(drm_atomic_async_commit);
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(drm_atomic_nonblocking_commit);
 
 /*
  * The big monstor ioctl
@@ -1687,7 +1687,7 @@ int drm_mode_atomic_ioctl(struct drm_device *dev,
 		 */
 		ret = drm_atomic_check_only(state);
 	} else if (arg->flags & DRM_MODE_ATOMIC_NONBLOCK) {
-		ret = drm_atomic_async_commit(state);
+		ret = drm_atomic_nonblocking_commit(state);
 	} else {
 		ret = drm_atomic_commit(state);
 	}
diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_atomic_helper.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_atomic_helper.c
index 297713bab54943b403627fa31b30e28ef0f6403a..b04662e0e608ef06430c229b9f0e907e8c03aba8 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_atomic_helper.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_atomic_helper.c
@@ -2371,11 +2371,11 @@ int drm_atomic_helper_page_flip(struct drm_crtc *crtc,
 		goto fail;
 	}
 
-	ret = drm_atomic_async_commit(state);
+	ret = drm_atomic_nonblocking_commit(state);
 	if (ret != 0)
 		goto fail;
 
-	/* Driver takes ownership of state on successful async commit. */
+	/* Driver takes ownership of state on successful commit. */
 	return 0;
 fail:
 	if (ret == -EDEADLK)
diff --git a/include/drm/drm_atomic.h b/include/drm/drm_atomic.h
index d3eaa5df187a49fca6242c86bfb4e3bd1f64b2d0..92c84e9ab09a70db602c2bae7d4dcfeb6867600c 100644
--- a/include/drm/drm_atomic.h
+++ b/include/drm/drm_atomic.h
@@ -137,7 +137,7 @@ drm_atomic_clean_old_fb(struct drm_device *dev, unsigned plane_mask, int ret);
 
 int __must_check drm_atomic_check_only(struct drm_atomic_state *state);
 int __must_check drm_atomic_commit(struct drm_atomic_state *state);
-int __must_check drm_atomic_async_commit(struct drm_atomic_state *state);
+int __must_check drm_atomic_nonblocking_commit(struct drm_atomic_state *state);
 
 #define for_each_connector_in_state(state, connector, connector_state, __i) \
 	for ((__i) = 0;							\