diff --git a/Documentation/dev-tools/kselftest.rst b/Documentation/dev-tools/kselftest.rst
index 12b575b76b20b1ded2f33b28746f32244a16ac44..6e35d042199c88ebfb56f1651939fe87bd1312c0 100644
--- a/Documentation/dev-tools/kselftest.rst
+++ b/Documentation/dev-tools/kselftest.rst
@@ -36,6 +36,7 @@ Running the selftests (hotplug tests are run in limited mode)
 
 To build the tests::
 
+  $ make headers
   $ make -C tools/testing/selftests
 
 To run the tests::