diff --git a/Documentation/kbuild/llvm.rst b/Documentation/kbuild/llvm.rst
index 13ec1b93dd2b..bf02347d1eb2 100644
--- a/Documentation/kbuild/llvm.rst
+++ b/Documentation/kbuild/llvm.rst
@@ -41,10 +41,10 @@ which can help simplify cross compiling. ::
 	ARCH=arm64 CROSS_COMPILE=aarch64-linux-gnu- make CC=clang
 
 ``CROSS_COMPILE`` is not used to prefix the Clang compiler binary, instead
-``CROSS_COMPILE`` is used to set a command line flag: ``--target <triple>``. For
+``CROSS_COMPILE`` is used to set a command line flag: ``--target=<triple>``. For
 example: ::
 
-	clang --target aarch64-linux-gnu foo.c
+	clang --target=aarch64-linux-gnu foo.c
 
 LLVM Utilities
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