Comment # 20 on bug 1166406 from Jiri Slaby

(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.