diff --git a/Documentation/arm64/sve.rst b/Documentation/arm64/sve.rst
index 03137154299e5e33772ed52c627881dec082207b..9d9a4de5bc34a31444dba9945e8f5c042160cbbb 100644
--- a/Documentation/arm64/sve.rst
+++ b/Documentation/arm64/sve.rst
@@ -255,7 +255,7 @@ prctl(PR_SVE_GET_VL)
     vector length change (which would only normally be the case between a
     fork() or vfork() and the corresponding execve() in typical use).
 
-    To extract the vector length from the result, and it with
+    To extract the vector length from the result, bitwise and it with
     PR_SVE_VL_LEN_MASK.
 
     Return value: a nonnegative value on success, or a negative value on error: