diff --git a/kernel/acct.c b/kernel/acct.c
index 62200d799b9b..31b09cf7189c 100644
--- a/kernel/acct.c
+++ b/kernel/acct.c
@@ -320,7 +320,7 @@ void acct_exit_ns(struct pid_namespace *ns)
 }
 
 /*
- *  encode an unsigned long into a comp_t
+ *  encode an u64 into a comp_t
  *
  *  This routine has been adopted from the encode_comp_t() function in
  *  the kern_acct.c file of the FreeBSD operating system. The encoding
@@ -331,7 +331,7 @@ void acct_exit_ns(struct pid_namespace *ns)
 #define	EXPSIZE		3			/* Base 8 (3 bit) exponent. */
 #define	MAXFRACT	((1 << MANTSIZE) - 1)	/* Maximum fractional value. */
 
-static comp_t encode_comp_t(unsigned long value)
+static comp_t encode_comp_t(u64 value)
 {
 	int exp, rnd;