diff --git a/kernel/perf_event.c b/kernel/perf_event.c
index 2870feee81dd..8465baf40087 100644
--- a/kernel/perf_event.c
+++ b/kernel/perf_event.c
@@ -1872,8 +1872,7 @@ static int alloc_callchain_buffers(void)
 	 * accessed from NMI. Use a temporary manual per cpu allocation
 	 * until that gets sorted out.
 	 */
-	size = sizeof(*entries) + sizeof(struct perf_callchain_entry *) *
-		num_possible_cpus();
+	size = offsetof(struct callchain_cpus_entries, cpu_entries[nr_cpu_ids]);
 
 	entries = kzalloc(size, GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (!entries)