* weird events, such as a task being switched away that is not current.
  */
        struct perf_cpu  max_cpu;
-       u32              curr_pid[MAX_CPUS];
-       struct thread    *curr_thread[MAX_CPUS];
+       u32              *curr_pid;
+       struct thread    **curr_thread;
        char             next_shortname1;
        char             next_shortname2;
        unsigned int     replay_repeat;
        u64              run_avg;
        u64              all_runtime;
        u64              all_count;
-       u64              cpu_last_switched[MAX_CPUS];
+       u64              *cpu_last_switched;
        struct rb_root_cached atom_root, sorted_atom_root, merged_atom_root;
        struct list_head sort_list, cmp_pid;
        bool force;
 
        mutex_init(&sched.start_work_mutex);
        mutex_init(&sched.work_done_wait_mutex);
-       for (i = 0; i < ARRAY_SIZE(sched.curr_pid); i++)
+       sched.curr_thread = calloc(MAX_CPUS, sizeof(*sched.curr_thread));
+       if (!sched.curr_thread) {
+               ret = -ENOMEM;
+               goto out;
+       }
+       sched.cpu_last_switched = calloc(MAX_CPUS, sizeof(*sched.cpu_last_switched));
+       if (!sched.cpu_last_switched) {
+               ret = -ENOMEM;
+               goto out;
+       }
+       sched.curr_pid = malloc(MAX_CPUS * sizeof(*sched.curr_pid));
+       if (!sched.curr_pid) {
+               ret = -ENOMEM;
+               goto out;
+       }
+       for (i = 0; i < MAX_CPUS; i++)
                sched.curr_pid[i] = -1;
 
        argc = parse_options_subcommand(argc, argv, sched_options, sched_subcommands,
        }
 
 out:
+       free(sched.curr_pid);
+       free(sched.cpu_last_switched);
+       free(sched.curr_thread);
        mutex_destroy(&sched.start_work_mutex);
        mutex_destroy(&sched.work_done_wait_mutex);