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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/trace/ftrace.rst | 3 |
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diff --git a/Documentation/trace/ftrace.rst b/Documentation/trace/ftrace.rst index 46df39300d22..8575aed7b74b 100644 --- a/Documentation/trace/ftrace.rst +++ b/Documentation/trace/ftrace.rst @@ -187,7 +187,8 @@ of ftrace. Here is a list of some of the key files: CPU buffer and not total size of all buffers. The trace buffers are allocated in pages (blocks of memory that the kernel uses for allocation, usually 4 KB in size). - If the last page allocated has room for more bytes + A few extra pages may be allocated to accommodate buffer management + meta-data. If the last page allocated has room for more bytes than requested, the rest of the page will be used, making the actual allocation bigger than requested or shown. ( Note, the size may not be a multiple of the page size |