diff --git a/include/linux/jiffies.h b/include/linux/jiffies.h
index c8d5f207c3d4892cf23fc4ebd24b736b4023779a..0ec6e28bccd27b7d2861f5eb442d5b06610d97f3 100644
--- a/include/linux/jiffies.h
+++ b/include/linux/jiffies.h
@@ -74,7 +74,7 @@
 #define __jiffy_data  __attribute__((section(".data")))
 
 /*
- * The 64-bit value is not volatile - you MUST NOT read it
+ * The 64-bit value is not atomic - you MUST NOT read it
  * without sampling the sequence number in xtime_lock.
  * get_jiffies_64() will do this for you as appropriate.
  */