diff --git a/mm/hugetlb.c b/mm/hugetlb.c
index 527e2b89e209..9d3a1416fc2f 100644
--- a/mm/hugetlb.c
+++ b/mm/hugetlb.c
@@ -4028,7 +4028,7 @@ void unmap_hugepage_range(struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long start,
 
 /*
  * This is called when the original mapper is failing to COW a MAP_PRIVATE
- * mappping it owns the reserve page for. The intention is to unmap the page
+ * mapping it owns the reserve page for. The intention is to unmap the page
  * from other VMAs and let the children be SIGKILLed if they are faulting the
  * same region.
  */