diff --git a/share/man/man9/mbuf.9 b/share/man/man9/mbuf.9
index 65c114a791d..ea795c6efd0 100644
--- a/share/man/man9/mbuf.9
+++ b/share/man/man9/mbuf.9
@@ -266,14 +266,14 @@ on failure.
 The
 .Fa how
 argument is to be set to
-.Dv M_WAIT
+.Dv M_TRYWAIT
 or
 .Dv M_DONTWAIT .
 It specifies whether the caller is willing to block if necessary.
 If 
 .Fa how
 is set to
-.Dv M_WAIT ,
+.Dv M_TRYWAIT ,
 a failed allocation will result in the caller being put
 to sleep for a designated
 kern.ipc.mbuf_wait