diff --git a/Documentation/power/runtime_pm.rst b/Documentation/power/runtime_pm.rst
index 53d1996460ab..12f429359a82 100644
--- a/Documentation/power/runtime_pm.rst
+++ b/Documentation/power/runtime_pm.rst
@@ -347,7 +347,9 @@ drivers/base/power/runtime.c and include/linux/pm_runtime.h:
 
   `int pm_runtime_resume_and_get(struct device *dev);`
     - run pm_runtime_resume(dev) and if successful, increment the device's
-      usage counter; return the result of pm_runtime_resume
+      usage counter; returns 0 on success (whether or not the device's
+      runtime PM status was already 'active') or the error code from
+      pm_runtime_resume() on failure.
 
   `int pm_request_idle(struct device *dev);`
     - submit a request to execute the subsystem-level idle callback for the