diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/memory.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/memory.rst
index 0042206414c8f7efb676f578897a71d63008d454..270501db9f4e854aa768c6548ce46858476c1c3b 100644
--- a/Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/memory.rst
+++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/memory.rst
@@ -86,6 +86,8 @@ Brief summary of control files.
                                      used.
  memory.force_empty		     trigger forced page reclaim
  memory.pressure_level		     set memory pressure notifications
+                                     This knob is deprecated and shouldn't be
+                                     used.
  memory.swappiness		     set/show swappiness parameter of vmscan
 				     (See sysctl's vm.swappiness)
  memory.move_charge_at_immigrate     set/show controls of moving charges
@@ -898,8 +900,10 @@ At reading, current status of OOM is shown.
           The number of processes belonging to this cgroup killed by any
           kind of OOM killer.
 
-11. Memory Pressure
-===================
+11. Memory Pressure (DEPRECATED)
+================================
+
+THIS IS DEPRECATED!
 
 The pressure level notifications can be used to monitor the memory
 allocation cost; based on the pressure, applications can implement
diff --git a/mm/memcontrol-v1.c b/mm/memcontrol-v1.c
index 3240f930d5f7326adcdd6cda5a05fe09d7772e33..b37c0d870816d180da98c7924b1599704ee74d72 100644
--- a/mm/memcontrol-v1.c
+++ b/mm/memcontrol-v1.c
@@ -2000,6 +2000,9 @@ static ssize_t memcg_write_event_control(struct kernfs_open_file *of,
 		event->register_event = mem_cgroup_oom_register_event;
 		event->unregister_event = mem_cgroup_oom_unregister_event;
 	} else if (!strcmp(name, "memory.pressure_level")) {
+		pr_warn_once("pressure_level is deprecated and will be removed. "
+			     "Please report your usecase to linux-mm-@kvack.org "
+			     "if you depend on this functionality. \n");
 		event->register_event = vmpressure_register_event;
 		event->unregister_event = vmpressure_unregister_event;
 	} else if (!strcmp(name, "memory.memsw.usage_in_bytes")) {