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diff --git a/modules/system/system.api.php b/modules/system/system.api.php
index 50c4be538..4f5c7880c 100644
--- a/modules/system/system.api.php
+++ b/modules/system/system.api.php
@@ -3287,6 +3287,10 @@ function hook_install() {
* the same directory as mymodule.module. Drupal core's updates are implemented
* using the system module as a name and stored in database/updates.inc.
*
+ * Not all module functions are available from within a hook_update_N() function.
+ * In order to call a function from your mymodule.module or an include file,
+ * you need to explicitly load that file first.
+ *
* If your update task is potentially time-consuming, you'll need to implement a
* multipass update to avoid PHP timeouts. Multipass updates use the $sandbox
* parameter provided by the batch API (normally, $context['sandbox']) to store