diff --git a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
index 93200322d73..8147f96e0f8 100644
--- a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
@@ -969,6 +969,9 @@ Release 2.8.0 - UNRELEASED
     HADOOP-12735. core-default.xml misspells
     hadoop.workaround.non.threadsafe.getpwuid (Ray Chiang via cmccabe)
 
+    HADOOP-12771. Fix typo in JvmPauseMonitor#getNumGcWarnThreadholdExceeded.
+    (Xiaobing Zhou via xyao)
+
 Release 2.7.3 - UNRELEASED
 
   INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES
diff --git a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/metrics2/source/JvmMetrics.java b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/metrics2/source/JvmMetrics.java
index 164aa9340c1..a6de50ba38d 100644
--- a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/metrics2/source/JvmMetrics.java
+++ b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/metrics2/source/JvmMetrics.java
@@ -140,7 +140,7 @@ public class JvmMetrics implements MetricsSource {
     
     if (pauseMonitor != null) {
       rb.addCounter(GcNumWarnThresholdExceeded,
-          pauseMonitor.getNumGcWarnThreadholdExceeded());
+          pauseMonitor.getNumGcWarnThresholdExceeded());
       rb.addCounter(GcNumInfoThresholdExceeded,
           pauseMonitor.getNumGcInfoThresholdExceeded());
       rb.addCounter(GcTotalExtraSleepTime,
diff --git a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/util/JvmPauseMonitor.java b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/util/JvmPauseMonitor.java
index 72ccf9d437c..e4b6a8f115e 100644
--- a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/util/JvmPauseMonitor.java
+++ b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/util/JvmPauseMonitor.java
@@ -100,8 +100,8 @@ public class JvmPauseMonitor {
   public boolean isStarted() {
     return monitorThread != null;
   }
-  
-  public long getNumGcWarnThreadholdExceeded() {
+
+  public long getNumGcWarnThresholdExceeded() {
     return numGcWarnThresholdExceeded;
   }