diff --git a/cmd/kubelet/app/options/options.go b/cmd/kubelet/app/options/options.go
index aafd37a5283..b921c4e3b57 100644
--- a/cmd/kubelet/app/options/options.go
+++ b/cmd/kubelet/app/options/options.go
@@ -502,8 +502,8 @@ func AddKubeletConfigFlags(mainfs *pflag.FlagSet, c *kubeletconfig.KubeletConfig
 	fs.StringVar(&c.TopologyManagerScope, "topology-manager-scope", c.TopologyManagerScope, "Scope to which topology hints applied. Topology Manager collects hints from Hint Providers and applies them to defined scope to ensure the pod admission. Possible values: 'container', 'pod'.")
 	fs.Var(cliflag.NewMapStringStringNoSplit(&c.TopologyManagerPolicyOptions), "topology-manager-policy-options", "A set of key=value Topology Manager policy options to use, to fine tune their behaviour. If not supplied, keep the default behaviour.")
 	// Node Allocatable Flags
-	fs.Var(cliflag.NewMapStringString(&c.SystemReserved), "system-reserved", "A set of ResourceName=ResourceQuantity (e.g. cpu=200m,memory=500Mi,ephemeral-storage=1Gi) pairs that describe resources reserved for non-kubernetes components. Currently only cpu, memory and local ephemeral storage for root file system are supported. See https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/configuration/manage-resources-containers/ for more detail. [default=none]")
-	fs.Var(cliflag.NewMapStringString(&c.KubeReserved), "kube-reserved", "A set of ResourceName=ResourceQuantity (e.g. cpu=200m,memory=500Mi,ephemeral-storage=1Gi) pairs that describe resources reserved for kubernetes system components. Currently only cpu, memory and local ephemeral storage for root file system are supported. See https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/configuration/manage-resources-containers/ for more detail. [default=none]")
+	fs.Var(cliflag.NewMapStringString(&c.SystemReserved), "system-reserved", "A set of ResourceName=ResourceQuantity (e.g. cpu=200m,memory=500Mi,ephemeral-storage=1Gi,pid=1000) pairs that describe resources reserved for non-kubernetes components. Currently only cpu, memory, pid and local ephemeral storage for root file system are supported. See https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/configuration/manage-resources-containers/ for more detail. [default=none]")
+	fs.Var(cliflag.NewMapStringString(&c.KubeReserved), "kube-reserved", "A set of ResourceName=ResourceQuantity (e.g. cpu=200m,memory=500Mi,ephemeral-storage=1Gi,pid=1000) pairs that describe resources reserved for kubernetes system components. Currently only cpu, memory, pid and local ephemeral storage for root file system are supported. See https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/configuration/manage-resources-containers/ for more detail. [default=none]")
 	fs.StringSliceVar(&c.EnforceNodeAllocatable, "enforce-node-allocatable", c.EnforceNodeAllocatable, "A comma separated list of levels of node allocatable enforcement to be enforced by kubelet. Acceptable options are 'none', 'pods', 'system-reserved', and 'kube-reserved'. If the latter two options are specified, '--system-reserved-cgroup' and '--kube-reserved-cgroup' must also be set, respectively. If 'none' is specified, no additional options should be set. See https://kubernetes.io/docs/tasks/administer-cluster/reserve-compute-resources/ for more details.")
 	fs.StringVar(&c.SystemReservedCgroup, "system-reserved-cgroup", c.SystemReservedCgroup, "Absolute name of the top level cgroup that is used to manage non-kubernetes components for which compute resources were reserved via '--system-reserved' flag. Ex. '/system-reserved'. [default='']")
 	fs.StringVar(&c.KubeReservedCgroup, "kube-reserved-cgroup", c.KubeReservedCgroup, "Absolute name of the top level cgroup that is used to manage kubernetes components for which compute resources were reserved via '--kube-reserved' flag. Ex. '/kube-reserved'. [default='']")