diff --git a/mlir/include/mlir/Dialect/MemRef/IR/MemRefOps.td b/mlir/include/mlir/Dialect/MemRef/IR/MemRefOps.td
--- a/mlir/include/mlir/Dialect/MemRef/IR/MemRefOps.td
+++ b/mlir/include/mlir/Dialect/MemRef/IR/MemRefOps.td
@@ -1246,6 +1246,24 @@
       strides: [%stride0, %stride1]
     : memref<*xf32> to memref<?x?xf32, strided<[?, ?], offset: ?>>
     ```
+
+    This operation creates a new memref descriptor using the base of the
+    source and applying the input arguments to the other metadata.
+    In other words:
+    ```mlir
+    %dst = memref.reinterpret_cast %src to
+      offset: [%offset],
+      sizes: [%sizes],
+      strides: [%strides]
+    ```
+    means that `%dst`'s descriptor will be:
+    ```mlir
+    %dst.base = %src.base
+    %dst.aligned = %src.aligned
+    %dst.offset = %offset
+    %dst.sizes = %sizes
+    %dst.strides = %strides
+    ```
   }];
 
   let arguments = (ins Arg<AnyRankedOrUnrankedMemRef, "", []>:$source,