[PATCH 00/14] arm_pmu: ACPI support

[mark.rutland@arm.com (Mark Rutland)]

On Wed, Mar 22, 2017 at 02:46:50PM +0530, Ganapatrao Kulkarni wrote:
> i am not able to run with latest perf tool, i see issue with memory
> corruption in malloc
> is this seen from anyone else too?
> i am not sure, is this issue with my setup?
> 
> root at VAL1-13>perf>> perf stat -e armv8_pmuv3_0/br_mis_pred/ sleep 1
> 
>  Performance counter stats for 'sleep 1':
> 
>             10,815      armv8_pmuv3_0/br_mis_pred/
> 
>        1.001232167 seconds time elapsed
> 
> root at VAL1-13>perf>> ./perf stat -e armv8_pmuv3_0/br_mis_pred/ sleep 1
> *** Error in `./perf': free(): invalid next size (fast): 0x00000000086a7a00 ***
> Aborted (core dumped)
> root at VAL1-13>perf>> ./perf -v
> perf version 4.11.rc3.g093b99
> root at VAL1-13>perf>> perf -v
> perf version 4.8.rc6.g21c488
> root at VAL1-13>perf>> uname -a
> Linux VAL1-13 4.11.0-rc2-12139-g3804e12 #1 SMP PREEMPT Wed Mar 22
> 06:26:28 UTC 2017 aarch64 aarch64 aarch64 GNU/Linux
> root at VAL1-13>perf>>

I've managed to reproduce this on a Seatle system using DT, with the
perf tool from v4.11-rc3.

I'm digging into this now.

Thanks,
Mark.