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diff --git a/Documentation/RCU/whatisRCU.txt b/Documentation/RCU/whatisRCU.txt
index f8092a891dd0..820fee236967 100644
--- a/Documentation/RCU/whatisRCU.txt
+++ b/Documentation/RCU/whatisRCU.txt
@@ -750,7 +750,7 @@ Or, for those who prefer a side-by-side listing:
 
 Either way, the differences are quite small.  Read-side locking moves
 to rcu_read_lock() and rcu_read_unlock, update-side locking moves from
-from a reader-writer lock to a simple spinlock, and a synchronize_rcu()
+a reader-writer lock to a simple spinlock, and a synchronize_rcu()
 precedes the kfree().
 
 However, there is one potential catch: the read-side and update-side