diff --git a/mm/percpu.c b/mm/percpu.c
index e61dc2cc5873..039f51a0dc3f 100644
--- a/mm/percpu.c
+++ b/mm/percpu.c
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@
  * as small as 4 bytes.  The allocator organizes chunks into lists
  * according to free size and tries to allocate from the fullest one.
  * Each chunk keeps the maximum contiguous area size hint which is
- * guaranteed to be eqaul to or larger than the maximum contiguous
+ * guaranteed to be equal to or larger than the maximum contiguous
  * area in the chunk.  This helps the allocator not to iterate the
  * chunk maps unnecessarily.
  *