diff --git a/include/linux/memcontrol.h b/include/linux/memcontrol.h
index dd7bfba90052a1ded5de98e6f88cea05b4249ff4..217f24719c2c833c08cd3495dad2f2eb785cb1cf 100644
--- a/include/linux/memcontrol.h
+++ b/include/linux/memcontrol.h
@@ -185,7 +185,7 @@ 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