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what is python doing with systemtap?

I noticed on CentOS-7 distro that the python-2 and python-3 RPM installs both have some "systemtap" scripts installed at /usr/share/systemtap.

What is python doing with systemtap scripts?

I read a little about what is systemtap and the description[1] I read sounds like to me that systemtap is a kernel debugging/instrumentation tool.

[1] from the stackoverflow.com tag description:

Systemtap is tool to probe or trace a running linux system,
supporting visibility into both kernel- (its initial focus) and user-space. It uses dynamically loaded probes to gather performance and tracing data about the whole system or just selected processes.

Solution

  • SystemTap can inspect python. Reference: https://docs.python.org/3/howto/instrumentation.html

    So the scripts you see in /usr/share/systemtap may include some helper functions for SystemTap to trace python code.