Comment # 19 on bug 1166406 from Tony Jones

(In reply to Jiri Slaby from comment #18)
> (In reply to Jiri Slaby from comment #17)
> > So it can and does open .xz. Tony, do you have some old version of systemtap?
> 
> Stap seems to use libelf to handle that and this was added there by
> commit 6ecdead8c0fbba51e8b2561e4d54dd7be3f69204
> Author: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
> Date:   Fri Feb 11 12:29:45 2011 -0800
> 
>     libdwfl: Search for Linux kernel binaries with compression file name
> suffixes.
> 
> So xz should not be a problem. That said, I don't understand what your issue
> is. Something seems to be broken on your system.

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.