The 'virtiostat' script failed to load BPF program b'trace_virtqueue_add_sgs'

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Issue

  • The virtiostat script fails with an exception: Failed to load BPF program b'trace_virtqueue_add_sgs': Argument list too long.
# /usr/share/bcc/tools/virtiostat -d virtio_blk
bpf: Argument list too long. Program  too large (387 insns), at most 4096 insns

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/share/bcc/tools/virtiostat", line 259, in <module>
    b.attach_kprobe(event="virtqueue_add_sgs", fn_name="trace_virtqueue_add_sgs")
  File "/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/bcc/__init__.py", line 686, in attach_kprobe
    fn = self.load_func(fn_name, BPF.KPROBE)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/bcc/__init__.py", line 412, in load_func
    raise Exception("Failed to load BPF program %s: %s" %
Exception: Failed to load BPF program b'trace_virtqueue_add_sgs': Argument list too long

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.
    • bcc-tools
    • virtiostat

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