diff --git a/Documentation/core-api/atomic_ops.rst b/Documentation/core-api/atomic_ops.rst
index 2e7165f86f55..724583453e1f 100644
--- a/Documentation/core-api/atomic_ops.rst
+++ b/Documentation/core-api/atomic_ops.rst
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ updated by one CPU, local_t is probably more appropriate. Please see
 local_t.
 
 The first operations to implement for atomic_t's are the initializers and
-plain reads. ::
+plain writes. ::
 
 	#define ATOMIC_INIT(i)		{ (i) }
 	#define atomic_set(v, i)	((v)->counter = (i))