tracking the implementation of DTrace probes in Python

Several known patches, sourced from patches shipped in distribution packages and from the Python issue tracker, are collected here. Patches are named

FRAMEWORK-SOURCE-OS.PYVERSION.patch

where FRAMEWORK is dtrace or systemtap, SOURCE is the distribution or Python issue ID the patch was extracted from, OS is a list of supported OSes, or all to indicate all FRAMEWORK-supporting OSes.

1. Issue 4111: Add Systemtap/DTrace probes

   Original issue.

2. Issue 13405: Add DTrace probes

   Current DTrace tracking issue. Appears blocked on combined SystemTap and DTrace patch.

3. Issue 14776: Add SystemTap static markers

   Current SystemTap tracking issues. Appears blocked on combined SystemTap and DTrace patch.

4. Issue 21590: Systemtap and Dtrace support

   Combined tracking of 13405 and 14776. Appears inactive.

• Official DTrace guide

• DTrace patch for Python 2.7.x and 3.x

  jcea's lovingly-maintained DTrace patches for recent versions of Python.

• Python's sys.settrace

  DTrace probes should eventually cover everything a system trace function gets called for.

• Understanding DTrace ustack helpers

  Awesome breakdown of how the Node.js ustack helper was built.

• Python and DTrace in build 65

  Notes on original Python ustack helper patch from the folks at Sun.

• Ruby DTrace probes and arguments

  Probes added to Ruby by Joyent. May be lost to the sands of time?

• Official Python benchmark suite

  For profiling performance impact of this patch. See dmalcom's thoughts on this: http://bugs.python.org/issue4111#msg100173