diff --git a/Documentation/RCU/whatisRCU.txt b/Documentation/RCU/whatisRCU.txt
index 88dfce182f66..16622c9e86b5 100644
--- a/Documentation/RCU/whatisRCU.txt
+++ b/Documentation/RCU/whatisRCU.txt
@@ -256,7 +256,9 @@ rcu_dereference()
 	If you are going to be fetching multiple fields from the
 	RCU-protected structure, using the local variable is of
 	course preferred.  Repeated rcu_dereference() calls look
-	ugly and incur unnecessary overhead on Alpha CPUs.
+	ugly, do not guarantee that the same pointer will be returned
+	if an update happened while in the critical section, and incur
+	unnecessary overhead on Alpha CPUs.
 
 	Note that the value returned by rcu_dereference() is valid
 	only within the enclosing RCU read-side critical section.