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diff --git a/Documentation/accounting/delay-accounting.txt b/Documentation/accounting/delay-accounting.txt
index 1443cd71d263..8a12f0730c94 100644
--- a/Documentation/accounting/delay-accounting.txt
+++ b/Documentation/accounting/delay-accounting.txt
@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@ the delays experienced by a task while
a) waiting for a CPU (while being runnable)
b) completion of synchronous block I/O initiated by the task
c) swapping in pages
+d) memory reclaim
and makes these statistics available to userspace through
the taskstats interface.
@@ -41,7 +42,7 @@ this structure. See
include/linux/taskstats.h
for a description of the fields pertaining to delay accounting.
It will generally be in the form of counters returning the cumulative
-delay seen for cpu, sync block I/O, swapin etc.
+delay seen for cpu, sync block I/O, swapin, memory reclaim etc.
Taking the difference of two successive readings of a given
counter (say cpu_delay_total) for a task will give the delay
@@ -94,7 +95,9 @@ CPU count real total virtual total delay total
7876 92005750 100000000 24001500
IO count delay total
0 0
-MEM count delay total
+SWAP count delay total
+ 0 0
+RECLAIM count delay total
0 0
Get delays seen in executing a given simple command
@@ -108,5 +111,7 @@ CPU count real total virtual total delay total
6 4000250 4000000 0
IO count delay total
0 0
-MEM count delay total
+SWAP count delay total
+ 0 0
+RECLAIM count delay total
0 0