diff --git a/kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c b/kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c
index 19cccc3c302871beae5fd39ad937b0791a2e785d..ef27017caa56dc7fa9b08f38549354376927b417 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c
@@ -2606,6 +2606,19 @@ void ring_buffer_record_enable_cpu(struct ring_buffer *buffer, int cpu)
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(ring_buffer_record_enable_cpu);
 
+/*
+ * The total entries in the ring buffer is the running counter
+ * of entries entered into the ring buffer, minus the sum of
+ * the entries read from the ring buffer and the number of
+ * entries that were overwritten.
+ */
+static inline unsigned long
+rb_num_of_entries(struct ring_buffer_per_cpu *cpu_buffer)
+{
+	return local_read(&cpu_buffer->entries) -
+		(local_read(&cpu_buffer->overrun) + cpu_buffer->read);
+}
+
 /**
  * ring_buffer_entries_cpu - get the number of entries in a cpu buffer
  * @buffer: The ring buffer
@@ -2614,16 +2627,13 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(ring_buffer_record_enable_cpu);
 unsigned long ring_buffer_entries_cpu(struct ring_buffer *buffer, int cpu)
 {
 	struct ring_buffer_per_cpu *cpu_buffer;
-	unsigned long ret;
 
 	if (!cpumask_test_cpu(cpu, buffer->cpumask))
 		return 0;
 
 	cpu_buffer = buffer->buffers[cpu];
-	ret = (local_read(&cpu_buffer->entries) - local_read(&cpu_buffer->overrun))
-		- cpu_buffer->read;
 
-	return ret;
+	return rb_num_of_entries(cpu_buffer);
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(ring_buffer_entries_cpu);
 
@@ -2684,8 +2694,7 @@ unsigned long ring_buffer_entries(struct ring_buffer *buffer)
 	/* if you care about this being correct, lock the buffer */
 	for_each_buffer_cpu(buffer, cpu) {
 		cpu_buffer = buffer->buffers[cpu];
-		entries += (local_read(&cpu_buffer->entries) -
-			    local_read(&cpu_buffer->overrun)) - cpu_buffer->read;
+		entries += rb_num_of_entries(cpu_buffer);
 	}
 
 	return entries;