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authorSwapnil Sapkal <swapnil.sapkal@amd.com>2026-01-27 18:50:00 +0000
committerArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>2026-01-28 15:18:41 -0300
commit34b0a58eef04a49376e4103efc5b09f1e33e594a (patch)
treea3e82bea5c08365cb6f828373113379a703ab35d
parentf7dc49645346d9d47825b60c4557da6885d48037 (diff)
perf sched stats: Fixes in man page
Fix the incorrect description of the schedstats report. Also fix the spelling errors in man page. Fixes: 800af362d68945e5 ("perf sched stats: Add details in man page") Reviewed-by: Shrikanth Hegde <sshegde@linux.ibm.com> Reported-by: Shrikanth Hegde <sshegde@linux.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Swapnil Sapkal <swapnil.sapkal@amd.com> Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com> Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com> Cc: Anubhav Shelat <ashelat@redhat.com> Cc: Chen Yu <yu.c.chen@intel.com> Cc: Gautham Shenoy <gautham.shenoy@amd.com> Cc: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: James Clark <james.clark@arm.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org> Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Ravi Bangoria <ravi.bangoria@amd.com> Cc: Thomas Falcon <thomas.falcon@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
-rw-r--r--tools/perf/Documentation/perf-sched.txt8
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-sched.txt b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-sched.txt
index 5bfb7bb6c633..4d9981609c04 100644
--- a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-sched.txt
+++ b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-sched.txt
@@ -86,7 +86,7 @@ There are several variants of 'perf sched':
exposed through the file ``/proc/schedstat``. These counters are enabled or disabled
via the sysctl governed by the file ``/proc/sys/kernel/sched_schedstats``. These
counters accounts for many scheduler events such as ``schedule()`` calls, load-balancing
- events, ``try_to_wakeup()`` call among others. This is useful in understading the
+ events, ``try_to_wakeup()`` call among others. This is useful in understanding the
scheduler behavior for the workload.
Note: The tool will not give correct results if there is topological reordering or
@@ -100,7 +100,7 @@ There are several variants of 'perf sched':
A detailed description of the schedstats can be found in the Kernel Documentation:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/scheduler/sched-stats.html
- The result can be interprested as follows:
+ The result can be interpreted as follows:
The `perf sched stats report` starts with description of the columns present in
the report. These column names are given before cpu and domain stats to improve
@@ -116,7 +116,7 @@ There are several variants of 'perf sched':
Next is the total profiling time in terms of jiffies:
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
- Time elapsed (in jiffies) : 24537
+ Time elapsed (in jiffies) : 2323
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Next is CPU scheduling statistics. These are simple diffs of /proc/schedstat CPU lines
@@ -210,7 +210,7 @@ There are several variants of 'perf sched':
While profiling was active, the load-balancer found 28490 times the load
needs to be balanced on a newly idle CPU 0. Following value encapsulated
- inside $ is average jiffies between two events (28490 / 24537 = 0.08).
+ inside $ is average jiffies between two events (2323 / 28490 = 0.08).
Next are active_load_balance() stats. alb did not trigger while the
profiling was active, hence it's all 0s.