diff --git a/Documentation/locking/ww-mutex-design.rst b/Documentation/locking/ww-mutex-design.rst
index 1846c199da23..54d9c17bb66b 100644
--- a/Documentation/locking/ww-mutex-design.rst
+++ b/Documentation/locking/ww-mutex-design.rst
@@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ However, the Wound-Wait algorithm is typically stated to generate fewer backoffs
 compared to Wait-Die, but is, on the other hand, associated with more work than
 Wait-Die when recovering from a backoff. Wound-Wait is also a preemptive
 algorithm in that transactions are wounded by other transactions, and that
-requires a reliable way to pick up up the wounded condition and preempt the
+requires a reliable way to pick up the wounded condition and preempt the
 running transaction. Note that this is not the same as process preemption. A
 Wound-Wait transaction is considered preempted when it dies (returning
 -EDEADLK) following a wound.