diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace.c b/kernel/trace/trace.c
index 4589b67168fc..54e3b8711aca 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/trace.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/trace.c
@@ -260,16 +260,8 @@ unsigned long long ns2usecs(u64 nsec)
 	TRACE_ITER_EVENT_FORK
 
 /*
- * The global_trace is the descriptor that holds the tracing
- * buffers for the live tracing. For each CPU, it contains
- * a link list of pages that will store trace entries. The
- * page descriptor of the pages in the memory is used to hold
- * the link list by linking the lru item in the page descriptor
- * to each of the pages in the buffer per CPU.
- *
- * For each active CPU there is a data field that holds the
- * pages for the buffer for that CPU. Each CPU has the same number
- * of pages allocated for its buffer.
+ * The global_trace is the descriptor that holds the top-level tracing
+ * buffers for the live tracing.
  */
 static struct trace_array global_trace = {
 	.trace_flags = TRACE_DEFAULT_FLAGS,