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diff --git a/Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt b/Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt
index 23d1262c0775..ab0a02172cf4 100644
--- a/Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt
+++ b/Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt
@@ -179,6 +179,9 @@ The reclaim algorithm has not been modified for cgroups, except that
pages that are selected for reclaiming come from the per cgroup LRU
list.
+NOTE: Reclaim does not work for the root cgroup, since we cannot set any
+limits on the root cgroup.
+
2. Locking
The memory controller uses the following hierarchy
@@ -210,6 +213,7 @@ We can alter the memory limit:
NOTE: We can use a suffix (k, K, m, M, g or G) to indicate values in kilo,
mega or gigabytes.
NOTE: We can write "-1" to reset the *.limit_in_bytes(unlimited).
+NOTE: We cannot set limits on the root cgroup any more.
# cat /cgroups/0/memory.limit_in_bytes
4194304