In https://bugs.gentoo.org/719674#c12 gentoo sees nptl/tst-stack4 crashes somewhat reliably on arm64: # while :; do date; env GCONV_PATH=/var/tmp/portage/sys-libs/glibc-2.30-r8/work/build-arm64-aarch64-unknown-linux-gnu-nptl/iconvdata LOCPATH=/var/tmp/portage/sys-libs/glibc-2.30-r8/work/build-arm64-aarch64-unknown-linux-gnu-nptl/localedata LC_ALL=C /var/tmp/portage/sys-libs/glibc-2.30-r8/work/build-arm64-aarch64-unknown-linux-gnu-nptl/elf/ld-linux-aarch64.so.1 --library-path /var/tmp/portage/sys-libs/glibc-2.30-r8/work/build-arm64-aarch64-unknown-linux-gnu-nptl:/var/tmp/portage/sys-libs/glibc-2.30-r8/work/build-arm64-aarch64-unknown-linux-gnu-nptl/math:/var/tmp/portage/sys-libs/glibc-2.30-r8/work/build-arm64-aarch64-unknown-linux-gnu-nptl/elf:/var/tmp/portage/sys-libs/glibc-2.30-r8/work/build-arm64-aarch64-unknown-linux-gnu-nptl/dlfcn:/var/tmp/portage/sys-libs/glibc-2.30-r8/work/build-arm64-aarch64-unknown-linux-gnu-nptl/nss:/var/tmp/portage/sys-libs/glibc-2.30-r8/work/build-arm64-aarch64-unknown-linux-gnu-nptl/nis:/var/tmp/portage/sys-libs/glibc-2.30-r8/work/build-arm64-aarch64-unknown-linux-gnu-nptl/rt:/var/tmp/portage/sys-libs/glibc-2.30-r8/work/build-arm64-aarch64-unknown-linux-gnu-nptl/resolv:/var/tmp/portage/sys-libs/glibc-2.30-r8/work/build-arm64-aarch64-unknown-linux-gnu-nptl/mathvec:/var/tmp/portage/sys-libs/glibc-2.30-r8/work/build-arm64-aarch64-unknown-linux-gnu-nptl/support:/var/tmp/portage/sys-libs/glibc-2.30-r8/work/build-arm64-aarch64-unknown-linux-gnu-nptl/crypt:/var/tmp/portage/sys-libs/glibc-2.30-r8/work/build-arm64-aarch64-unknown-linux-gnu-nptl/nptl::/var/tmp/portage/sys-libs/glibc-2.30-r8/work/build-arm64-aarch64-unknown-linux-gnu-nptl//dlfcn /var/tmp/portage/sys-libs/glibc-2.30-r8/work/build-arm64-aarch64-unknown-linux-gnu-nptl/nptl/tst-stack4; done Sun 03 May 2020 10:42:08 AM UTC Sun 03 May 2020 10:42:21 AM UTC Sun 03 May 2020 10:42:34 AM UTC Didn't expect signal from child: got `Segmentation fault' ... Sun 03 May 2020 10:42:56 AM UTC malloc(): invalid size (unsorted) Didn't expect signal from child: got `Aborted' .. Sun 03 May 2020 10:46:21 AM UTC free(): corrupted unsorted chunks Didn't expect signal from child: got `Aborted' ... Sun 03 May 2020 10:46:55 AM UTC Didn't expect signal from child: got `Segmentation fault' Sun 03 May 2020 10:47:04 AM UTC double free or corruption (!prev) Didn't expect signal from child: got `Aborted' ... Sun 03 May 2020 10:50:54 AM UTC free(): invalid pointer Didn't expect signal from child: got `Aborted' ... Sun 03 May 2020 10:52:12 AM UTC tst-stack4: malloc.c:2379: sysmalloc: Assertion `(old_top == initial_top (av) && old_size == 0) || ((unsigned long) (old_size) >= MINSIZE && prev_inuse (old_top) && ((unsigned long) old_end & (pagesize - 1)) == 0)' failed. Didn't expect signal from child: got `Aborted' Does it look like the same issue described here? # lscpu Architecture: aarch64 Byte Order: Little Endian CPU(s): 96 On-line CPU(s) list: 0-95 Thread(s) per core: 1 Core(s) per socket: 48 Socket(s): 2 Vendor ID: Cavium Model: 1 Model name: ThunderX 88XX Stepping: 0x1 BogoMIPS: 200.00 L1d cache: 32K L1i cache: 78K L2 cache: 16384K Flags: fp asimd evtstrm aes pmull sha1 sha2 crc32 # gcc -v Using built-in specs. COLLECT_GCC=gcc COLLECT_LTO_WRAPPER=/usr/libexec/gcc/aarch64-unknown-linux-gnu/9.3.0/lto-wrapper Target: aarch64-unknown-linux-gnu Configured with: /var/tmp/portage/sys-devel/gcc-9.3.0/work/gcc-9.3.0/configure --host=aarch64-unknown-linux-gnu --build=aarch64-unknown-linux-gnu --prefix=/usr --bindir=/usr/aarch64-unknown-linux-gnu/gcc-bin/9.3.0 --includedir=/usr/lib/gcc/aarch64-unknown-linux-gnu/9.3.0/include --datadir=/usr/share/gcc-data/aarch64-unknown-linux-gnu/9.3.0 --mandir=/usr/share/gcc-data/aarch64-unknown-linux-gnu/9.3.0/man --infodir=/usr/share/gcc-data/aarch64-unknown-linux-gnu/9.3.0/info --with-gxx-include-dir=/usr/lib/gcc/aarch64-unknown-linux-gnu/9.3.0/include/g++-v9 --with-python-dir=/share/gcc-data/aarch64-unknown-linux-gnu/9.3.0/python --enable-languages=c,c++,fortran --enable-obsolete --enable-secureplt --disable-werror --with-system-zlib --enable-nls --without-included-gettext --enable-checking=release --with-bugurl=https://bugs.gentoo.org/ --with-pkgversion='Gentoo 9.3.0 p2' --disable-esp --enable-libstdcxx-time --enable-shared --enable-threads=posix --enable-__cxa_atexit --enable-clocale=gnu --disable-multilib --disable-altivec --disable-fixed-point --enable-libgomp --disable-libmudflap --disable-libssp --disable-libada --disable-systemtap --enable-vtable-verify --enable-lto --without-isl --enable-default-pie --enable-default-ssp Thread model: posix gcc version 9.3.0 (Gentoo 9.3.0 p2) # uname -r 4.9.0-4-arm64