diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v2.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v2.rst
index 007ba86aef78..6d13f2de6d69 100644
--- a/Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v2.rst
+++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v2.rst
@@ -1288,7 +1288,12 @@ PAGE_SIZE multiple when read back.
 	  inactive_anon, active_anon, inactive_file, active_file, unevictable
 		Amount of memory, swap-backed and filesystem-backed,
 		on the internal memory management lists used by the
-		page reclaim algorithm
+		page reclaim algorithm.
+
+		As these represent internal list state (eg. shmem pages are on anon
+		memory management lists), inactive_foo + active_foo may not be equal to
+		the value for the foo counter, since the foo counter is type-based, not
+		list-based.
 
 	  slab_reclaimable
 		Part of "slab" that might be reclaimed, such as