diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/transhuge.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/transhuge.rst
index e0fe17affeb3..f82300b9193f 100644
--- a/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/transhuge.rst
+++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/transhuge.rst
@@ -369,7 +369,7 @@ monitor how successfully the system is providing huge pages for use.
 
 thp_fault_alloc
 	is incremented every time a huge page is successfully
-	allocated to handle a page fault.
+	allocated and charged to handle a page fault.
 
 thp_collapse_alloc
 	is incremented by khugepaged when it has found
@@ -377,7 +377,7 @@ thp_collapse_alloc
 	successfully allocated a new huge page to store the data.
 
 thp_fault_fallback
-	is incremented if a page fault fails to allocate
+	is incremented if a page fault fails to allocate or charge
 	a huge page and instead falls back to using small pages.
 
 thp_fault_fallback_charge