diff --git a/meta/recipes-kernel/systemtap/systemtap_git.inc b/meta/recipes-kernel/systemtap/systemtap_git.inc
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+LICENSE = "GPLv2"
+LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=b234ee4d69f5fce4486a80fdaf4a4263"
+SRCREV = "bf16266782e1f2588b519a50d9684279d4e21036"
+PV = "2.7+git${SRCPV}"
+
+SRC_URI = "git://sourceware.org/git/systemtap.git \
+           file://docproc-build-fix.patch \
+           file://obsolete_automake_macros.patch \
+           file://system_map_location.patch \
+           file://configure-allow-to-disable-libvirt.patch \
+           file://x32_abi_time.patch \
+          "
+
+# systemtap doesn't support mips
+COMPATIBLE_HOST = '(x86_64|i.86|powerpc|arm|aarch64).*-linux'
+
+S = "${WORKDIR}/git"
+
+# systemtap can't be built without optimization, if someone tries to compile an
+# entire image as -O0, we override it with -O2 here and give a note about it.
+def get_optimization(d):
+    selected_optimization = d.getVar("SELECTED_OPTIMIZATION", True)
+    if bb.utils.contains("SELECTED_OPTIMIZATION", "-O0", "x", "", d) == "x":
+        bb.note("systemtap can't be built with -O0, -O2 will be used instead.")
+        return selected_optimization.replace("-O0", "-O2")
+    return selected_optimization
+
+SELECTED_OPTIMIZATION := "${@get_optimization(d)}"