Re: [PATCH v2 2/3] docs: sched-stats: fix misleading 'per-process' wording

[Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>]

Kit Dallege <xaum.io@gmail.com> writes:

> /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:claude-opus-4-6
> 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:
>  

Until you've copied the scheduler maintainers, a change like this will
not go anywhere useful.

jon