diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt
index c61a223ef3ff9edea7a95b575871a0f441dade40..bb1c91726922482efa86a046ccf8299033ff4b8a 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt
@@ -727,7 +727,7 @@ struct address_space_operations {
 
 	The second case is when a request has been made to invalidate
         some or all pages in an address_space.  This can happen
-        through the fadvice(POSIX_FADV_DONTNEED) system call or by the
+        through the fadvise(POSIX_FADV_DONTNEED) system call or by the
         filesystem explicitly requesting it as nfs and 9fs do (when
         they believe the cache may be out of date with storage) by
         calling invalidate_inode_pages2().