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-rw-r--r--Documentation/trace/ftrace.txt15
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diff --git a/Documentation/trace/ftrace.txt b/Documentation/trace/ftrace.txt
index fd9a3e69381..e362f50c496 100644
--- a/Documentation/trace/ftrace.txt
+++ b/Documentation/trace/ftrace.txt
@@ -518,9 +518,18 @@ priority with zero (0) being the highest priority and the nice
values starting at 100 (nice -20). Below is a quick chart to map
the kernel priority to user land priorities.
- Kernel priority: 0 to 99 ==> user RT priority 99 to 0
- Kernel priority: 100 to 139 ==> user nice -20 to 19
- Kernel priority: 140 ==> idle task priority
+ Kernel Space User Space
+ ===============================================================
+ 0(high) to 98(low) user RT priority 99(high) to 1(low)
+ with SCHED_RR or SCHED_FIFO
+ ---------------------------------------------------------------
+ 99 sched_priority is not used in scheduling
+ decisions(it must be specified as 0)
+ ---------------------------------------------------------------
+ 100(high) to 139(low) user nice -20(high) to 19(low)
+ ---------------------------------------------------------------
+ 140 idle task priority
+ ---------------------------------------------------------------
The task states are: