diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/powerpc/pmu/ebb/instruction_count_test.c b/tools/testing/selftests/powerpc/pmu/ebb/instruction_count_test.c
index 5da355135df2f8c5431d5e405f1312313401582a..ae9a7908611110e4d77fc22a8fe68be84222be2e 100644
--- a/tools/testing/selftests/powerpc/pmu/ebb/instruction_count_test.c
+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/powerpc/pmu/ebb/instruction_count_test.c
@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ static int do_count_loop(struct event *event, uint64_t instructions,
 		printf("Looped for %lu instructions, overhead %lu\n", instructions, overhead);
 		printf("Expected %lu\n", expected);
 		printf("Actual   %llu\n", event->result.value);
-		printf("Error    %ld, %f%%\n", difference, percentage);
+		printf("Delta    %ld, %f%%\n", difference, percentage);
 		printf("Took %d EBBs\n", ebb_state.stats.ebb_count);
 	}