diff --git a/mm/memcontrol.c b/mm/memcontrol.c
index 1ed40f9d3a27..61932c9215e7 100644
--- a/mm/memcontrol.c
+++ b/mm/memcontrol.c
@@ -7971,9 +7971,13 @@ bool mem_cgroup_swap_full(struct folio *folio)
 
 static int __init setup_swap_account(char *s)
 {
-	pr_warn_once("The swapaccount= commandline option is deprecated. "
-		     "Please report your usecase to linux-mm@kvack.org if you "
-		     "depend on this functionality.\n");
+	bool res;
+
+	if (!kstrtobool(s, &res) && !res)
+		pr_warn_once("The swapaccount=0 commandline option is deprecated "
+			     "in favor of configuring swap control via cgroupfs. "
+			     "Please report your usecase to linux-mm@kvack.org if you "
+			     "depend on this functionality.\n");
 	return 1;
 }
 __setup("swapaccount=", setup_swap_account);