diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/transhuge.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/transhuge.rst
index 7ab93a8404b9de0c223e74c28713da66b7f49f5a..bd5714547cee0cbb06edd31d59c0d4f12476ad33 100644
--- a/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/transhuge.rst
+++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/transhuge.rst
@@ -53,7 +53,7 @@ disabled, there is ``khugepaged`` daemon that scans memory and
 collapses sequences of basic pages into huge pages.
 
 The THP behaviour is controlled via :ref:`sysfs <thp_sysfs>`
-interface and using madivse(2) and prctl(2) system calls.
+interface and using madvise(2) and prctl(2) system calls.
 
 Transparent Hugepage Support maximizes the usefulness of free memory
 if compared to the reservation approach of hugetlbfs by allowing all