diff --git a/paddle/fluid/API.spec b/paddle/fluid/API.spec
index aae345a53696927e8959b9ad374e7dfb6351208b..b5c62e44dda99f7c0707db5e01fecc234b70c996 100644
--- a/paddle/fluid/API.spec
+++ b/paddle/fluid/API.spec
@@ -132,7 +132,7 @@ paddle.fluid.layers.pool2d (ArgSpec(args=['input', 'pool_size', 'pool_type', 'po
 paddle.fluid.layers.pool3d (ArgSpec(args=['input', 'pool_size', 'pool_type', 'pool_stride', 'pool_padding', 'global_pooling', 'use_cudnn', 'ceil_mode', 'name', 'exclusive'], varargs=None, keywords=None, defaults=(-1, 'max', 1, 0, False, True, False, None, True)), ('document', '053b1a855f13a066d005759171724bc6'))
 paddle.fluid.layers.adaptive_pool2d (ArgSpec(args=['input', 'pool_size', 'pool_type', 'require_index', 'name'], varargs=None, keywords=None, defaults=('max', False, None)), ('document', '52343203de40afe29607397e13aaf0d2'))
 paddle.fluid.layers.adaptive_pool3d (ArgSpec(args=['input', 'pool_size', 'pool_type', 'require_index', 'name'], varargs=None, keywords=None, defaults=('max', False, None)), ('document', '55db6ae7275fb9678a6814aebab81a9c'))
-paddle.fluid.layers.batch_norm (ArgSpec(args=['input', 'act', 'is_test', 'momentum', 'epsilon', 'param_attr', 'bias_attr', 'data_layout', 'in_place', 'name', 'moving_mean_name', 'moving_variance_name', 'do_model_average_for_mean_and_var', 'fuse_with_relu', 'use_global_stats'], varargs=None, keywords=None, defaults=(None, False, 0.9, 1e-05, None, None, 'NCHW', False, None, None, None, False, False, False)), ('document', '4cc22c3553e73a958e8b9a240d894431'))
+paddle.fluid.layers.batch_norm (ArgSpec(args=['input', 'act', 'is_test', 'momentum', 'epsilon', 'param_attr', 'bias_attr', 'data_layout', 'in_place', 'name', 'moving_mean_name', 'moving_variance_name', 'do_model_average_for_mean_and_var', 'fuse_with_relu', 'use_global_stats'], varargs=None, keywords=None, defaults=(None, False, 0.9, 1e-05, None, None, 'NCHW', False, None, None, None, False, False, False)), ('document', '404741b5690228c493a2d9f59c6b1122'))
 paddle.fluid.layers.data_norm (ArgSpec(args=['input', 'act', 'epsilon', 'param_attr', 'data_layout', 'in_place', 'name', 'moving_mean_name', 'moving_variance_name', 'do_model_average_for_mean_and_var'], varargs=None, keywords=None, defaults=(None, 1e-05, None, 'NCHW', False, None, None, None, False)), ('document', '2460b30fb87037555208fa8ac6fc1787'))
 paddle.fluid.layers.beam_search_decode (ArgSpec(args=['ids', 'scores', 'beam_size', 'end_id', 'name'], varargs=None, keywords=None, defaults=(None,)), ('document', '83e08f21af41ac8bac37aeab1f86fdd0'))
 paddle.fluid.layers.conv2d_transpose (ArgSpec(args=['input', 'num_filters', 'output_size', 'filter_size', 'padding', 'stride', 'dilation', 'groups', 'param_attr', 'bias_attr', 'use_cudnn', 'act', 'name'], varargs=None, keywords=None, defaults=(None, None, 0, 1, 1, None, None, None, True, None, None)), ('document', '6d3b135bb3834d58ef2cb581ead1487c'))
diff --git a/python/paddle/fluid/layers/nn.py b/python/paddle/fluid/layers/nn.py
index 76cb4bb66e06732f03924b3b609c752acfa64434..4d833b4a96ccda495bd2b231edd6796a10097ccf 100644
--- a/python/paddle/fluid/layers/nn.py
+++ b/python/paddle/fluid/layers/nn.py
@@ -3208,6 +3208,10 @@ def batch_norm(input,
         \\sigma_{\\beta}^{2} + \\epsilon}}  \\\\
         y_i &\\gets \\gamma \\hat{x_i} + \\beta
 
+    Note:
+        if build_strategy.sync_batch_norm=True, the batch_norm in network will use 
+        sync_batch_norm automatically.
+
     Args:
         input(variable): The rank of input variable can be 2, 3, 4, 5.
         act(string, Default None): Activation type, linear|relu|prelu|...