HI i want to run profiling on Kernel using Oprofile but it requires uncompressed vmlinux image and ubuntu 10.10 provides vmlinuz which is stripped and compressed. Pls help
Ubuntu 2.6.35 vmlinux image for kernel profiling using oprofile
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See this answer on Superuser for how to install an uncompressed (debug) version of your kernel.
You may need to rebuild the kernel from source or find an uncompressed copy of vmlinux. The vmlinuz file is stripped of symbols along with the ELF header to save space, and are needed for oprofile.