Comment # 21 on bug 1166406 from Tony Jones

(In reply to Jiri Slaby from comment #20)
> (In reply to Tony Jones from comment #19)
> > I don't have an issue.   The vmlinux I was using wasn't xz compressed and so
> > systemtap wasn't decompressing it.  Maybe it can decompress xz.
> > 
> > My point was that you said only "kdump and crash read it [vmlinux]" which
> > isn't true, systemtap also does.  That is all.
> 
> Aaah. It also looks (from the source code) that libdw (elfutils) can read
> also vmlinuz if there is no vmlinux.

This wasn't working for me when I tried it, so I had to manually decompress the
installed vmlinux. Possible I'm using too old an elfutils, or issue was
elsewhere.  Regardless, not relevant to this bug.  I'll verify it works
off-line.