* [PATCH 2/3] docs: sched-stats: fix misleading 'per-process' wording
@ 2026-03-15 15:41 Kit Dallege
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From: Kit Dallege @ 2026-03-15 15:41 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Jonathan Corbet, Peter Zijlstra, Ingo Molnar
Cc: linux-doc, linux-kernel, Kit Dallege, Claude
/proc/<pid>/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=202635
Assisted-by: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>
Signed-off-by: Kit Dallege <xaum.io@gmail.com>
---
Documentation/scheduler/sched-stats.rst | 4 ++--
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/scheduler/sched-stats.rst b/Documentation/scheduler/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/<pid>/schedstat
---------------------
schedstats also adds a new /proc/<pid>/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:
1) time spent on the cpu (in nanoseconds)
2) time spent waiting on a runqueue (in nanoseconds)
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2.53.0
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