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I hit the following problem when I tried to use bpftool
to dump a percpu array.

  $ sudo ./bpftool map show
  61: percpu_array  name stub  flags 0x0
          key 4B  value 4B  max_entries 1  memlock 4096B
  ...
  $ sudo ./bpftool map dump id 61
  bpftool: malloc.c:2406: 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.
  Aborted

Further debugging revealed that this is due to
miscommunication between bpftool and kernel.
For example, for the above percpu_array with value size of 4B.
The map info returned to user space has value size of 4B.

In bpftool, the values array for lookup is allocated like:
   info->value_size * get_possible_cpus() = 4 * get_possible_cpus()
In kernel (kernel/bpf/syscall.c), the values array size is
rounded up to multiple of 8.
   round_up(map->value_size, 8) * num_pos...