diff --git a/include/linux/memcontrol.h b/include/linux/memcontrol.h
index 8d0950810f851c91b1902198c1a3dee17adaa4f4..b21cc22878f37d77ba737d1eeabe027499a9539b 100644
--- a/include/linux/memcontrol.h
+++ b/include/linux/memcontrol.h
@@ -158,7 +158,7 @@ struct mem_cgroup_per_node {
 	bool			on_tree;
 	bool			congested;	/* memcg has many dirty pages */
 						/* backed by a congested BDI */
-	bool			dirty;		/* mecg has too many dirty pages */
+	bool			dirty;		/* memcg has too many dirty pages */
 	bool			writeback;	/* memcg has too many writeback */
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE