diff --git a/Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt b/Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt
index c7de7dac43b51779260f3ae08e39baa9cbeb6ac3..4c95c0034a4bbbffdae12a99ff2ddbd0798ca09c 100644
--- a/Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt
+++ b/Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt
@@ -410,8 +410,11 @@ memory.stat file includes following statistics
 cache		- # of bytes of page cache memory.
 rss		- # of bytes of anonymous and swap cache memory.
 mapped_file	- # of bytes of mapped file (includes tmpfs/shmem)
-pgpgin		- # of pages paged in (equivalent to # of charging events).
-pgpgout		- # of pages paged out (equivalent to # of uncharging events).
+pgpgin		- # of charging events to the memory cgroup. The charging
+		event happens each time a page is accounted as either mapped
+		anon page(RSS) or cache page(Page Cache) to the cgroup.
+pgpgout		- # of uncharging events to the memory cgroup. The uncharging
+		event happens each time a page is unaccounted from the cgroup.
 swap		- # of bytes of swap usage
 inactive_anon	- # of bytes of anonymous memory and swap cache memory on
 		LRU list.