diff --git a/doc/090_participating.rst b/doc/090_participating.rst
index 890bd9018..2793833fe 100644
--- a/doc/090_participating.rst
+++ b/doc/090_participating.rst
@@ -71,8 +71,10 @@ The program can be built with debug support like this:
     $ go run build.go -tags debug
 
 This will make the ``restic debug <subcommand>`` available which can be used to
-inspect internal data structures. In addition, this enables profiling support
-which can help with investigation performance and memory usage issues.
+inspect internal data structures. In addition, this enables profiling flags such
+as ``--cpu-profile`` and ``--mem-profile`` which can help with investigation
+performance and memory usage issues. See ``restic help`` for more details and a
+few additional ``--...-profile`` flags.
 
 
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