On 10/20/07, Miles O'Neal <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Wenji Wu said...
>
> |I want to profile the system with oprofile, which only requires the vmlinux
> |(the uncompressed kernel image). My system has only vlinuz. Are there any
> |way that I can convert vmlinuz to vmlinux?
>
> Some details are here:
>
>    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vmlinux
>
> with reference to a way to do this.
>
> Is a stripped kernel going to work for you?
> If not, you need to get the source and build
> one.  Or see if there is a kernel-debuginfo
> package available for whichever version of
> the OS you are running; this should have the
> vmlinux you need, unless that has changed
> with recent releases.

Thanks for the info.  I also wanted to run oprofile with vmlinux and
built the kernel for that. But glad to learn kernel-degubinfo is
available from:

http://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/5x/archive/debuginfo/

Akemi