diff --git a/Documentation/vm/transhuge.txt b/Documentation/vm/transhuge.txt
index c4171e4..f2e7395 100644
--- a/Documentation/vm/transhuge.txt
+++ b/Documentation/vm/transhuge.txt
@@ -296,7 +296,7 @@
 	reason is that a huge page is old and is being reclaimed.
 	This action implies splitting all PMD the page mapped with.
 
-thp_split_page_failed is is incremented if kernel fails to split huge
+thp_split_page_failed is incremented if kernel fails to split huge
 	page. This can happen if the page was pinned by somebody.
 
 thp_deferred_split_page is incremented when a huge page is put onto split