diff --git a/lucene/CHANGES.txt b/lucene/CHANGES.txt
index 96f1b2587e6..fc1fbbcf798 100644
--- a/lucene/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/lucene/CHANGES.txt
@@ -183,6 +183,12 @@ Bug Fixes
 ---------------------
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+Documentation
+---------------------
+
+* LUCENE-9424: Add a performance warning to AttributeSource.captureState javadocs (Haoyu Zhai)
+
+
 Other
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diff --git a/lucene/core/src/java/org/apache/lucene/util/AttributeSource.java b/lucene/core/src/java/org/apache/lucene/util/AttributeSource.java
index e962fedc1de..fe4e4f1cd0a 100644
--- a/lucene/core/src/java/org/apache/lucene/util/AttributeSource.java
+++ b/lucene/core/src/java/org/apache/lucene/util/AttributeSource.java
@@ -292,6 +292,8 @@ public class AttributeSource {
   /**
    * Captures the state of all Attributes. The return value can be passed to
    * {@link #restoreState} to restore the state of this or another AttributeSource.
+   * 
+   * Be careful, this method comes with a cost of deep copying all attributes in the source.
    */
   public final State captureState() {
     final State state = this.getCurrentState();