diff --git a/test/memory_validation/pmc_config_files/cache_pmc.txt b/test/memory_validation/pmc_config_files/cache_pmc.txt
index 93e59a4ab2..745f4d6d7b 100644
--- a/test/memory_validation/pmc_config_files/cache_pmc.txt
+++ b/test/memory_validation/pmc_config_files/cache_pmc.txt
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
 pmc : FlatVMemInsts SFetchInsts
 pmc : TCC_HIT_sum TCC_MISS_sum
 pmc : FetchSize
-pmc : WriteSize Mem32Bwrites
+pmc : WriteSize MemWrites32B
diff --git a/test/memory_validation/run_scripts/test_fetchwrite_size.sh b/test/memory_validation/run_scripts/test_fetchwrite_size.sh
index 63dedd6e16..bb8a757abe 100755
--- a/test/memory_validation/run_scripts/test_fetchwrite_size.sh
+++ b/test/memory_validation/run_scripts/test_fetchwrite_size.sh
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ initialize
 
 Ns_M="8192 131072|512"
 
-headers="Mem32Bwrites FetchSize WriteSize"
+headers="MemWrites32B FetchSize WriteSize"
 
 # set up outputs
 OUT_DIR="outs"; [ -d $OUT_DIR ] && rm -rf $OUT_DIR; mkdir $OUT_DIR
@@ -71,7 +71,7 @@ function one_run
           colVal=`echo $values | cut -f$colId -d' '`
 
           if [[ $kern == cache_test_RO || $kern == cache_test_WO ]]; then
-            if [[ $colStr == Mem32Bwrites ]]; then mc32wrs=$colVal
+            if [[ $colStr == MemWrites32B ]]; then mc32wrs=$colVal
             elif [[ $colStr == FetchSize ]]; then fetchsize=$colVal
             elif [[ $colStr == WriteSize ]]; then writesize=$colVal; fi
           fi
diff --git a/test/tool/metrics.xml b/test/tool/metrics.xml
index ca2c4a4291..c340a4398c 100644
--- a/test/tool/metrics.xml
+++ b/test/tool/metrics.xml
@@ -185,9 +185,9 @@
     expr=WRITE_SIZE
   ></metric>
 
-  # Mem32Bwrites    The total number of effective 32B write transactions to the memory
+  # MemWrites32B    The total number of effective 32B write transactions to the memory
   <metric
-    name="Mem32Bwrites"
+    name="MemWrites32B"
     descr="The total number of effective 32B write transactions to the memory"
     expr=WRITE_REQ_32B
   ></metric>