diff --git a/Documentation/vm/hugetlbpage.txt b/Documentation/vm/hugetlbpage.txt
index 457634c..f8551b3 100644
--- a/Documentation/vm/hugetlbpage.txt
+++ b/Documentation/vm/hugetlbpage.txt
@@ -72,7 +72,7 @@
 allocating huge pages as memory has not yet become fragmented.
 
 Some platforms support multiple huge page sizes.  To allocate huge pages
-of a specific size, one must preceed the huge pages boot command parameters
+of a specific size, one must precede the huge pages boot command parameters
 with a huge page size selection parameter "hugepagesz=<size>".  <size> must
 be specified in bytes with optional scale suffix [kKmMgG].  The default huge
 page size may be selected with the "default_hugepagesz=<size>" boot parameter.