diff --git a/src/hotspot/share/nmt/mallocHeader.hpp b/src/hotspot/share/nmt/mallocHeader.hpp
index 6711c2b993e..8472b5f8ce8 100644
--- a/src/hotspot/share/nmt/mallocHeader.hpp
+++ b/src/hotspot/share/nmt/mallocHeader.hpp
@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ class outputStream;
 /*
  * Malloc tracking header.
  *
- * If NMT is active (state >= minimal), we need to track allocations. A simple and cheap way to
+ * If NMT is active (state >= summary), we need to track allocations. A simple and cheap way to
  * do this is by using malloc headers.
  *
  * The user allocation is preceded by a header and is immediately followed by a (possibly unaligned)