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diff --git a/docs/virtio-balloon-stats.txt b/docs/virtio-balloon-stats.txt
index f74612f468..edff5f22a8 100644
--- a/docs/virtio-balloon-stats.txt
+++ b/docs/virtio-balloon-stats.txt
@@ -35,7 +35,8 @@ which will return a dictionary containing:
 
   o A key named last-update, which contains the last stats update
     timestamp in seconds. Since this timestamp is generated by the host,
-    a buggy guest can't influence its value
+    a buggy guest can't influence its value. The value is 0 if the guest
+    has not updated the stats (yet).
 
 It's also important to note the following:
 
@@ -49,7 +50,7 @@ It's also important to note the following:
 
  - Polling can be enabled even if the guest doesn't have stats support
    or the balloon driver wasn't loaded in the guest. If this is the case
-   and stats are queried, an error will be returned
+   and stats are queried, last-update will be 0.
 
  - The polling timer is only re-armed when the guest responds to the
    statistics request. This means that if a (buggy) guest doesn't ever