Bug#405810: Please provide package with vmlinuX, similar to kernel-debuginfo on redhat
The problem is that the vmlinuz file in /boot and modules in /lib/modules do not carry debug symbols. Therefor the vmlinux and unstripped modules would be needed in a linux-debug-2.6.x-x-all package carrying these would be nice. See the following discussion about systemtap for example: http://sources.redhat.com/ml/systemtap/2008-q3/msg00048.html This is not a issue for people building their own kernels, but for people tracing production systems running released debian kernels, where no debuginfo is preserved from the build. -- rm -rf only sounds scary if you don't have backups -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#405810: Please provide package with vmlinuX, similar to kernel-debuginfo on redhat
As a workaround for this if you want the kernel symbols for OProfile, you can use this script instead of opreport: http://marc.info/?l=oprofile-listm=121514749918466q=p3 It fetches kernel symbol information from /proc/kallsyms and lists them in a format identical to what opreport -l uses. //Johan 2008/7/7 Riku Voipio [EMAIL PROTECTED]: The problem is that the vmlinuz file in /boot and modules in /lib/modules do not carry debug symbols. Therefor the vmlinux and unstripped modules would be needed in a linux-debug-2.6.x-x-all package carrying these would be nice. See the following discussion about systemtap for example: http://sources.redhat.com/ml/systemtap/2008-q3/msg00048.html This is not a issue for people building their own kernels, but for people tracing production systems running released debian kernels, where no debuginfo is preserved from the build. -- rm -rf only sounds scary if you don't have backups -- To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#405810: Please provide package with vmlinuX, similar to kernel-debuginfo on redhat
Hi, +!. I also wish the vmlinux can also be shipped for use by oprofile without the need to recompile the kernel. Regards, hingwah -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#405810: Please provide package with vmlinuX, similar to kernel-debuginfo on redhat
Ping. Bastian Blank wrote: On Sat, Jan 06, 2007 at 02:50:46PM +0100, Philippe Teuwen wrote: To use oprofile with kernel profiling enabled, we need the uncompressed version of the kernel image, vmlinux. Use gunzip to get them (at least for architectures which simply compresses it with gzip). Some architectures also uses uncompressed files. This is not the case on at least amd64/i386. I saw on http://bonglonglong.com/2006/12/06/oprofile-kernel-images-and-innodb-oh-my/ that this is much easier on redhat which features a package called kernel-debuginfo I don't see such a package in the development fedora tree, please provide more informations. So could we also have sth like linux-debuginfo-2.6.18-1-686_i386.deb ? What should it contain? Only the uncompressed image? Or the unstripped? The uncompressed, unstripped vmlinux file at the top of the upstream linux build tree. For amd64 it is this file in the linux-2.6 build tree: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/src/linux/linux-2.6$ file linux-2.6-2.6.23/debian/build/build_amd64_none_amd64/vmlinux linux-2.6-2.6.23/debian/build/build_amd64_none_amd64/vmlinux: ELF 64-bit LSB executable, x86-64, version 1 (SYSV), statically linked, not stripped The later is not possible for size constraints. Why? [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/src/linux/linux-2.6$ ls -1sh linux-2.6-2.6.23/debian/build/build_amd64_none_amd64/vmlinux 5.0M linux-2.6-2.6.23/debian/build/build_amd64_none_amd64/vmlinux* -- Robert Edmonds [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Bug#405810: Please provide package with vmlinuX, similar to kernel-debuginfo on redhat
Package: linux-source-2.6.18 Severity: wishlist Hello, To use oprofile with kernel profiling enabled, we need the uncompressed version of the kernel image, vmlinux. When using the debian kernel image this is not possible, it is required to take the kernel sources and to compile a new image with make vmlinux. I saw on http://bonglonglong.com/2006/12/06/oprofile-kernel-images-and-innodb-oh-my/ that this is much easier on redhat which features a package called kernel-debuginfo So could we also have sth like linux-debuginfo-2.6.18-1-686_i386.deb ? Phil -- System Information: Debian Release: 4.0 APT prefers testing APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-1-686 Locale: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] (charmap=ISO-8859-15) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#405810: Please provide package with vmlinuX, similar to kernel-debuginfo on redhat
reassign 405810 linux-2.6 tags 405810 moreinfo thanks On Sat, Jan 06, 2007 at 02:50:46PM +0100, Philippe Teuwen wrote: To use oprofile with kernel profiling enabled, we need the uncompressed version of the kernel image, vmlinux. Use gunzip to get them (at least for architectures which simply compresses it with gzip). Some architectures also uses uncompressed files. I saw on http://bonglonglong.com/2006/12/06/oprofile-kernel-images-and-innodb-oh-my/ that this is much easier on redhat which features a package called kernel-debuginfo I don't see such a package in the development fedora tree, please provide more informations. So could we also have sth like linux-debuginfo-2.6.18-1-686_i386.deb ? What should it contain? Only the uncompressed image? Or the unstripped? The later is not possible for size constraints. Bastian -- A little suffering is good for the soul. -- Kirk, The Corbomite Maneuver, stardate 1514.0 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Bug#405810: Please provide package with vmlinuX, similar to kernel-debuginfo on redhat
To use oprofile with kernel profiling enabled, we need the uncompressed version of the kernel image, vmlinux. Use gunzip to get them (at least for architectures which simply compresses it with gzip). Some architectures also uses uncompressed files. I'm using i386 and I tried many things... (rename vmlinuz then) gunzip -f vmlinux-2.6.18-1-686.gz gunzip: vmlinux-2.6.18-1-686.gz: not in gzip format objcopy -j .kernel:vmlinux -O binary vmlinuz-2.6.18-1-686 vmlinux.gz objcopy: vmlinuz-2.6.18-1-686: File format not recognized Maybe I'm too stupid, how do you do that on i386? I don't see such a package in the development fedora tree, please provide more informations. Here is an example for Fedora 5: the content of package kernel-debuginfo-2.6.18-1.2257.fc5.x86_64.rpm can be see here http://rpm.pbone.net/index.php3/stat/6/idpl/3685636 What should it contain? Only the uncompressed image? Or the unstripped? The later is not possible for size constraints. Apparently the Fedora package contain also all debug symbols. Oops, this package is 720Mb :-( But for oprofiler we don't need all that, /usr/share/doc/oprofile/README.Debian.gz says: If you wish to have make-kpkg automatically build a vmlinux image so you can profile the kernel, edit the file /etc/kernel-pkg.conf (or ~/.kernel-pkg.conf) and add this line: install_vmlinux=YES So is there a magic command to get vmlinux out of vmlinuz whatever the architecture is and if not, could it be possible to create a package with the uncompressed kernel for each binary kernel? Phil -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
