diff --git a/Documentation/numastat.txt b/Documentation/numastat.txt
index 80133ace1eb2..9fcc9a608dc0 100644
--- a/Documentation/numastat.txt
+++ b/Documentation/numastat.txt
@@ -7,10 +7,10 @@ All units are pages. Hugepages have separate counters.
 
 numa_hit			A process wanted to allocate memory from this node,
 					and succeeded.
-numa_miss			A process wanted to allocate memory from this node,
-					but ended up with memory from another.
-numa_foreign		A process wanted to allocate on another node,
-				    but ended up with memory from this one.
+numa_miss			A process wanted to allocate memory from another node,
+					but ended up with memory from this node.
+numa_foreign		A process wanted to allocate on this node,
+				    but ended up with memory from another one.
 local_node			A process ran on this node and got memory from it.
 other_node			A process ran on this node and got memory from another node.
 interleave_hit 		Interleaving wanted to allocate from this node