diff --git a/Documentation/memory-barriers.txt b/Documentation/memory-barriers.txt
index 732f10ea382e..9d5e0f853f08 100644
--- a/Documentation/memory-barriers.txt
+++ b/Documentation/memory-barriers.txt
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ The purpose of this document is twofold:
  (2) to provide a guide as to how to use the barriers that are available.
 
 Note that an architecture can provide more than the minimum requirement
-for any particular barrier, but if the architecure provides less than
+for any particular barrier, but if the architecture provides less than
 that, that architecture is incorrect.
 
 Note also that it is possible that a barrier may be a no-op for an