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Sun, 15 Mar 2026 10:05:33 -0700 (PDT) From: Kit Dallege To: Jonathan Corbet Cc: Shuah Khan , linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Randy Dunlap Subject: [PATCH v2 2/3] docs: sched-stats: fix misleading 'per-process' wording Date: Sun, 15 Mar 2026 18:05:20 +0100 Message-ID: <20260315170521.63794-3-xaum.io@gmail.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.53.0 In-Reply-To: <20260315170521.63794-1-xaum.io@gmail.com> References: <20260315170521.63794-1-xaum.io@gmail.com> Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" /proc//schedstat provides statistics for the specific task (thread) identified by the pid, not an aggregation across all threads of a process. Change 'per-process' to 'per-task' to avoid confusion. Link: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3D202635 Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-6 Signed-off-by: Kit Dallege --- Documentation/scheduler/sched-stats.rst | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/scheduler/sched-stats.rst b/Documentation/schedu= ler/sched-stats.rst index 9d6a337755f4..9187cb6ce1cb 100644 --- a/Documentation/scheduler/sched-stats.rst +++ b/Documentation/scheduler/sched-stats.rst @@ -190,8 +190,8 @@ of idleness (busy, idle and newly idle): /proc//schedstat --------------------- schedstats also adds a new /proc//schedstat file to include some of -the same information on a per-process level. There are three fields in -this file correlating for that process to: +the same information on a per-task level. There are three fields in +this file correlating for that task to: =20 1) time spent on the cpu (in nanoseconds) 2) time spent waiting on a runqueue (in nanoseconds) --=20 2.53.0