diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c
index cb17e8b800d6..580a5f075ed0 100644
--- a/mm/page_alloc.c
+++ b/mm/page_alloc.c
@@ -1705,7 +1705,7 @@ bool zone_watermark_ok_safe(struct zone *z, int order, unsigned long mark,
  * comments in mmzone.h.  Reduces cache footprint of zonelist scans
  * that have to skip over a lot of full or unallowed zones.
  *
- * If the zonelist cache is present in the passed in zonelist, then
+ * If the zonelist cache is present in the passed zonelist, then
  * returns a pointer to the allowed node mask (either the current
  * tasks mems_allowed, or node_states[N_MEMORY].)
  *