diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
index 04545725f187..9e4c026f4837 100644
--- a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
+++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
@@ -4725,7 +4725,7 @@
 
 	sbni=		[NET] Granch SBNI12 leased line adapter
 
-	sched_debug	[KNL] Enables verbose scheduler debug messages.
+	sched_verbose	[KNL] Enables verbose scheduler debug messages.
 
 	schedstats=	[KNL,X86] Enable or disable scheduled statistics.
 			Allowed values are enable and disable. This feature
diff --git a/Documentation/scheduler/sched-domains.rst b/Documentation/scheduler/sched-domains.rst
index 8582fa5e9170..14ea2f21d20e 100644
--- a/Documentation/scheduler/sched-domains.rst
+++ b/Documentation/scheduler/sched-domains.rst
@@ -74,8 +74,8 @@ for a given topology level by creating a sched_domain_topology_level array and
 calling set_sched_topology() with this array as the parameter.
 
 The sched-domains debugging infrastructure can be enabled by enabling
-CONFIG_SCHED_DEBUG and adding 'sched_debug' to your cmdline. If you forgot to
-tweak your cmdline, you can also flip the /sys/kernel/debug/sched_debug
-knob. This enables an error checking parse of the sched domains which should
-catch most possible errors (described above). It also prints out the domain
-structure in a visual format.
+CONFIG_SCHED_DEBUG and adding 'sched_debug_verbose' to your cmdline. If you
+forgot to tweak your cmdline, you can also flip the
+/sys/kernel/debug/sched/verbose knob. This enables an error checking parse of
+the sched domains which should catch most possible errors (described above). It
+also prints out the domain structure in a visual format.
diff --git a/kernel/sched/debug.c b/kernel/sched/debug.c
index bf199d6ca906..461342f598ef 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/debug.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/debug.c
@@ -275,7 +275,7 @@ static const struct file_operations sched_dynamic_fops = {
 
 #endif /* CONFIG_PREEMPT_DYNAMIC */
 
-__read_mostly bool sched_debug_enabled;
+__read_mostly bool sched_debug_verbose;
 
 static const struct seq_operations sched_debug_sops;
 
@@ -300,7 +300,7 @@ static __init int sched_init_debug(void)
 	debugfs_sched = debugfs_create_dir("sched", NULL);
 
 	debugfs_create_file("features", 0644, debugfs_sched, NULL, &sched_feat_fops);
-	debugfs_create_bool("debug_enabled", 0644, debugfs_sched, &sched_debug_enabled);
+	debugfs_create_bool("verbose", 0644, debugfs_sched, &sched_debug_verbose);
 #ifdef CONFIG_PREEMPT_DYNAMIC
 	debugfs_create_file("preempt", 0644, debugfs_sched, NULL, &sched_dynamic_fops);
 #endif
diff --git a/kernel/sched/sched.h b/kernel/sched/sched.h
index 55232db745ac..bde72482cbb8 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/sched.h
+++ b/kernel/sched/sched.h
@@ -2363,7 +2363,7 @@ extern struct sched_entity *__pick_first_entity(struct cfs_rq *cfs_rq);
 extern struct sched_entity *__pick_last_entity(struct cfs_rq *cfs_rq);
 
 #ifdef	CONFIG_SCHED_DEBUG
-extern bool sched_debug_enabled;
+extern bool sched_debug_verbose;
 
 extern void print_cfs_stats(struct seq_file *m, int cpu);
 extern void print_rt_stats(struct seq_file *m, int cpu);
diff --git a/kernel/sched/topology.c b/kernel/sched/topology.c
index c343aedd9caa..55a0a243e871 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/topology.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/topology.c
@@ -14,15 +14,15 @@ static cpumask_var_t sched_domains_tmpmask2;
 
 static int __init sched_debug_setup(char *str)
 {
-	sched_debug_enabled = true;
+	sched_debug_verbose = true;
 
 	return 0;
 }
-early_param("sched_debug", sched_debug_setup);
+early_param("sched_verbose", sched_debug_setup);
 
 static inline bool sched_debug(void)
 {
-	return sched_debug_enabled;
+	return sched_debug_verbose;
 }
 
 #define SD_FLAG(_name, mflags) [__##_name] = { .meta_flags = mflags, .name = #_name },
@@ -131,7 +131,7 @@ static void sched_domain_debug(struct sched_domain *sd, int cpu)
 {
 	int level = 0;
 
-	if (!sched_debug_enabled)
+	if (!sched_debug_verbose)
 		return;
 
 	if (!sd) {
@@ -152,7 +152,7 @@ static void sched_domain_debug(struct sched_domain *sd, int cpu)
 }
 #else /* !CONFIG_SCHED_DEBUG */
 
-# define sched_debug_enabled 0
+# define sched_debug_verbose 0
 # define sched_domain_debug(sd, cpu) do { } while (0)
 static inline bool sched_debug(void)
 {
@@ -2141,7 +2141,7 @@ build_sched_domains(const struct cpumask *cpu_map, struct sched_domain_attr *att
 	if (has_asym)
 		static_branch_inc_cpuslocked(&sched_asym_cpucapacity);
 
-	if (rq && sched_debug_enabled) {
+	if (rq && sched_debug_verbose) {
 		pr_info("root domain span: %*pbl (max cpu_capacity = %lu)\n",
 			cpumask_pr_args(cpu_map), rq->rd->max_cpu_capacity);
 	}