diff --git a/pkgs/development/tools/profiling/systemtap/default.nix b/pkgs/development/tools/profiling/systemtap/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..b7872780245
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/tools/profiling/systemtap/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,52 @@
+{ fetchgit, pkgconfig, gettext, runCommand, makeWrapper
+, elfutils, kernel, gnumake }:
+let
+  ## fetchgit info
+  url = git://sourceware.org/git/systemtap.git;
+  rev = "a10bdceb7c9a7dc52c759288dd2e555afcc5184a";
+  sha256 = "1kllzfnh4ksis0673rma5psglahl6rvy0xs5v05qkqn6kl7irmg1";
+  version = "2016-09-16";
+
+  inherit (kernel) stdenv;
+  inherit (stdenv) lib;
+
+  ## stap binaries
+  stapBuild = stdenv.mkDerivation {
+    name = "systemtap-${version}";
+    src = fetchgit { inherit url rev sha256; };
+    buildInputs = [ elfutils pkgconfig gettext ];
+    enableParallelBuilding = true;
+  };
+
+  ## a kernel build dir as expected by systemtap
+  kernelBuildDir = runCommand "kbuild-${kernel.version}-merged" { } ''
+    mkdir -p $out
+    for f in \
+        ${kernel}/System.map \
+        ${kernel.dev}/vmlinux \
+        ${kernel.dev}/lib/modules/${kernel.modDirVersion}/build/{*,.*}
+    do
+      ln -s $(readlink -f $f) $out
+    done
+  '';
+
+in runCommand "systemtap-${kernel.version}-${version}" {
+  inherit stapBuild kernelBuildDir;
+  buildInputs = [ makeWrapper ];
+  meta = {
+    homepage = https://sourceware.org/systemtap/;
+    repositories.git = url;
+    description = "Provides a scripting language for instrumentation on a live kernel plus user-space";
+    license = lib.licenses.gpl2;
+    platforms = lib.platforms.linux;
+  };
+} ''
+  mkdir -p $out/bin
+  for bin in $stapBuild/bin/*; do # hello emacs */
+    ln -s $bin $out/bin
+  done
+  rm $out/bin/stap
+  makeWrapper $stapBuild/bin/stap $out/bin/stap \
+    --add-flags "-r $kernelBuildDir" \
+    --prefix PATH : ${lib.makeBinPath [ stdenv.cc.cc elfutils gnumake ]}
+''
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index 58eda14f3b8..9702500fc38 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -10866,6 +10866,8 @@ in
 
     sysdig = callPackage ../os-specific/linux/sysdig {};
 
+    systemtap = callPackage ../development/tools/profiling/systemtap { };
+
     tp_smapi = callPackage ../os-specific/linux/tp_smapi { };
 
     v86d = callPackage ../os-specific/linux/v86d { };