[Buildroot] Question about filesystem and Valgrind

[Mark Mason]

John OSullivan <john.osullivan at cloudiumsystems.com> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I am not sure if this is a buildroot issue, but buildroot 2015.02 is the tool I
> use to build my filesystem for an Arm based embedded board that I am using.
> 
> I am using libc  (rather than uclibc) and when I run Valgrind on my target it
> fails with.
> 
> > --2993:0:aspacem  Valgrind: FATAL: aspacem assertion failed:
> > --2993:0:aspacem    segment_is_sane
> 
> The issue it is identifying is with the filesystem:
> 
> If I cat /proc/self/maps I get
> 
> 00008000-00106000 r-xp 00000000 00:00 8773       /bin/busybox
> 0010e000-0010f000 rw-p 000fe000 00:00 8773       /bin/busybox
> 0010f000-00111000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0          [heap]
> b6dae000-b6eea000 r-xp 00000000 00:00 8937       /lib/libc-2.13.so
>                                 ^^^^^
>                                  dev & ino are always zero
> 
> the entry for /lib/libc-2.13.so should not have 00 for the device number.

0 generally means memory.  Are you running from a ramdisk with
execute-in-place?