diff --git a/library/alloc/src/collections/btree/node.rs b/library/alloc/src/collections/btree/node.rs
index e7d66a9a6a83e..6f705414a9b9d 100644
--- a/library/alloc/src/collections/btree/node.rs
+++ b/library/alloc/src/collections/btree/node.rs
@@ -179,7 +179,7 @@ impl<K, V> NodeRef<marker::Owned, K, V, marker::LeafOrInternal> {
 
     /// Removes the internal root node, using its first child as the new root node.
     /// As it is intended only to be called when the root node has only one child,
-    /// no cleanup is done on any of the other children.
+    /// no cleanup is done on any of the keys, values and other children.
     /// This decreases the height by 1 and is the opposite of `push_internal_level`.
     ///
     /// Requires exclusive access to the `Root` object but not to the root node;
@@ -220,7 +220,7 @@ impl<K, V> NodeRef<marker::Owned, K, V, marker::LeafOrInternal> {
 ///    - When this is `Owned`, the `NodeRef` acts roughly like `Box<Node>`,
 ///      but does not have a destructor, and must be cleaned up manually.
 ///   Since any `NodeRef` allows navigating through the tree, `BorrowType`
-///   effectively applies to the entire tree, not just the node itself.
+///   effectively applies to the entire tree, not just to the node itself.
 /// - `K` and `V`: These are the types of keys and values stored in the nodes.
 /// - `Type`: This can be `Leaf`, `Internal`, or `LeafOrInternal`. When this is
 ///   `Leaf`, the `NodeRef` points to a leaf node, when this is `Internal` the
@@ -420,7 +420,7 @@ impl<'a, K: 'a, V: 'a, Type> NodeRef<marker::Immut<'a>, K, V, Type> {
 
 impl<K, V> NodeRef<marker::Owned, K, V, marker::LeafOrInternal> {
     /// Similar to `ascend`, gets a reference to a node's parent node, but also
-    /// deallocate the current node in the process. This is unsafe because the
+    /// deallocates the current node in the process. This is unsafe because the
     /// current node will still be accessible despite being deallocated.
     pub unsafe fn deallocate_and_ascend(
         self,
@@ -656,7 +656,10 @@ impl<'a, K: 'a, V: 'a> NodeRef<marker::Mut<'a>, K, V, marker::LeafOrInternal> {
     /// Removes a key-value pair from the end of the node and returns the pair.
     /// Also removes the edge that was to the right of that pair and, if the node
     /// is internal, returns the orphaned subtree that this edge owned.
-    fn pop(&mut self) -> (K, V, Option<Root<K, V>>) {
+    ///
+    /// # Safety
+    /// The node must not be empty.
+    unsafe fn pop(&mut self) -> (K, V, Option<Root<K, V>>) {
         debug_assert!(self.len() > 0);
 
         let idx = self.len() - 1;
diff --git a/library/alloc/src/collections/btree/search.rs b/library/alloc/src/collections/btree/search.rs
index ed7f95fe632fa..efe94ef175ce7 100644
--- a/library/alloc/src/collections/btree/search.rs
+++ b/library/alloc/src/collections/btree/search.rs
@@ -12,8 +12,7 @@ pub enum SearchResult<BorrowType, K, V, FoundType, GoDownType> {
 
 /// Looks up a given key in a (sub)tree headed by the given node, recursively.
 /// Returns a `Found` with the handle of the matching KV, if any. Otherwise,
-/// returns a `GoDown` with the handle of the possible leaf edge where the key
-/// belongs.
+/// returns a `GoDown` with the handle of the leaf edge where the key belongs.
 ///
 /// The result is meaningful only if the tree is ordered by key, like the tree
 /// in a `BTreeMap` is.