diff --git a/src/main/java/com/yahoo/memory/XxHash64.java b/src/main/java/com/yahoo/memory/XxHash64.java
index 8a2c017e..5e1d9c6c 100644
--- a/src/main/java/com/yahoo/memory/XxHash64.java
+++ b/src/main/java/com/yahoo/memory/XxHash64.java
@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ class XxHash64 {
    * Returns the 64-bit hash of the sequence of bytes in the unsafeObject specified by
    * <i>cumOffsetBytes</i>, <i>lengthBytes</i> and a <i>seed</i>.
    *
-   * @param unsafeObject A reference to the object parameter required by unsafe.
+   * @param unsafeObj A reference to the object parameter required by unsafe.
    * @param cumOffsetBytes cumulative offset in bytes of this object from the backing resource
    * including any user given offsetBytes. This offset may also include other offset components
    * such as the native off-heap memory address, DirectByteBuffer split offsets, region offsets,