PUs: # tracer: nop # # entries-in-buffer/entries-written: 159836/64690869 #P:4 # # _-----=> irqs-off # / _----=> need-resched # | / _---=> hardirq/softirq # || / _--=> preempt-depth # ||| / delay # TASK-PID CPU# |||| TIMESTAMP FUNCTION # | | | |||| | | -0 [000] ...2 49.442971: local_touch_nmi <-cpu_idle -0 [000] d..2 49.442973: enter_idle <-cpu_idle -0 [000] d..2 49.442974: atomic_notifier_call_chain <-enter_idle -0 [000] d..2 49.442976: __atomic_notifier_call_chain <-atomic_notifier The above shows that the trace contains 159836 entries, but 64690869 were written. One could figure out that there were 64531033 entries that were dropped. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt