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perf top out of bounds address warnings when zoomed to kernel DSO

DISCUSSION Vlastimil Babka 1 participant 1 message Nov 5, 2014

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Hi,

when running perf top, immediately after zooming into kernel DSO I start getting tons of warnings like these, always for some userspace binary:

┌─Warning:────────────────────────────────────────┐
│Out of bounds address found:                     │
│                                                 │
│Addr:   5d558                                    │
│DSO:    /bin/bash f                              │
│Map:    400000-4ab000                            │
│Symbol: 5d4e0-5d4ef g malloc@plt                 │
│Arch:   x86_64                                   │
│Kernel: 3.18.0-rc3                               │
│Tools:  3.17.2                                   │
│                                                 │
│Not all samples will be on the annotation output.│
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│Please report to [email protected]    │
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└─────────────────────────────────────────────────┘

Vlastimil