diff --git a/include/linux/wait.h b/include/linux/wait.h
index 5f3efabc36f4..b6f77cf60dd7 100644
--- a/include/linux/wait.h
+++ b/include/linux/wait.h
@@ -101,7 +101,7 @@ init_waitqueue_func_entry(struct wait_queue_entry *wq_entry, wait_queue_func_t f
  * lead to sporadic and non-obvious failure.
  *
  * Use either while holding wait_queue_head::lock or when used for wakeups
- * with an extra smp_mb() like:
+ * with an extra smp_mb() like::
  *
  *      CPU0 - waker                    CPU1 - waiter
  *