diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/ksm.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/ksm.rst
index 874eb0c77d34..3deeb2a2c4f9 100644
--- a/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/ksm.rst
+++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/ksm.rst
@@ -52,7 +52,7 @@ with EAGAIN, but more probably arousing the Out-Of-Memory killer.
 If KSM is not configured into the running kernel, madvise MADV_MERGEABLE
 and MADV_UNMERGEABLE simply fail with EINVAL.  If the running kernel was
 built with CONFIG_KSM=y, those calls will normally succeed: even if the
-the KSM daemon is not currently running, MADV_MERGEABLE still registers
+KSM daemon is not currently running, MADV_MERGEABLE still registers
 the range for whenever the KSM daemon is started; even if the range
 cannot contain any pages which KSM could actually merge; even if
 MADV_UNMERGEABLE is applied to a range which was never MADV_MERGEABLE.