diff --git a/tools/profiler/Makefile.in b/tools/profiler/Makefile.in
index dce4e3179da0f858f0700c8fbcb159ca93f6a2d2..7def8ac581d8d9b1133fb12e98ea25e50c46560e 100644
--- a/tools/profiler/Makefile.in
+++ b/tools/profiler/Makefile.in
@@ -85,16 +85,12 @@ CPPSRCS += \
   $(NULL)
 endif
 ifeq ($(OS_TARGET),Darwin)
-# For now we use platform-linux.cc because we can't unwind
-# another thread on mac using backtrace(), the implementation
-# for platform-macosx.cc is in the hg history and should be
-# used when we can stackwalk using a thread handle.
 
 DEFINES += -DMOZ_ENABLE_PROFILER_SPS
 
 CPPSRCS += \
   shared-libraries-macos.cc \
-  platform-linux.cc \
+  platform-macos.cc \
   TableTicker.cpp \
   $(NULL)
 endif
diff --git a/tools/profiler/TableTicker.cpp b/tools/profiler/TableTicker.cpp
index 3950c232ad4a0398b75cf91be9d825b3a1e845b8..714ff7fb24349220e538578a2227cafed3cef708 100644
--- a/tools/profiler/TableTicker.cpp
+++ b/tools/profiler/TableTicker.cpp
@@ -45,9 +45,10 @@
 #include "prenv.h"
 #include "shared-libraries.h"
 #include "mozilla/StringBuilder.h"
+#include "mozilla/StackWalk.h"
 
 // we eventually want to make this runtime switchable
-#if defined(MOZ_PROFILING) && (defined(XP_MACOSX) || defined(XP_UNIX))
+#if defined(MOZ_PROFILING) && (defined(XP_UNIX) && !defined(XP_MACOSX))
  #ifndef ANDROID
   #define USE_BACKTRACE
  #endif
@@ -56,7 +57,7 @@
  #include <execinfo.h>
 #endif
 
-#if defined(MOZ_PROFILING) && defined(XP_WIN)
+#if defined(MOZ_PROFILING) && (defined(XP_MACOSX) || defined(XP_WIN))
  #define USE_NS_STACKWALK
 #endif
 #ifdef USE_NS_STACKWALK
@@ -353,7 +354,7 @@ class TableTicker: public Sampler {
 
 private:
   // Not implemented on platforms which do not support backtracing
-  void doBacktrace(Profile &aProfile);
+  void doBacktrace(Profile &aProfile, Address pc);
 
 private:
   Profile mProfile;
@@ -419,8 +420,9 @@ void TableTicker::HandleSaveRequest()
   NS_DispatchToMainThread(runnable);
 }
 
+
 #ifdef USE_BACKTRACE
-void TableTicker::doBacktrace(Profile &aProfile)
+void TableTicker::doBacktrace(Profile &aProfile, Address pc)
 {
   void *array[100];
   int count = backtrace (array, 100);
@@ -434,6 +436,7 @@ void TableTicker::doBacktrace(Profile &aProfile)
 }
 #endif
 
+
 #ifdef USE_NS_STACKWALK
 typedef struct {
   void** array;
@@ -452,17 +455,23 @@ void StackWalkCallback(void* aPC, void* aClosure)
   array->array[array->count++] = aPC;
 }
 
-void TableTicker::doBacktrace(Profile &aProfile)
+void TableTicker::doBacktrace(Profile &aProfile, Address fp)
 {
+#ifndef XP_MACOSX
   uintptr_t thread = GetThreadHandle(platform_data());
   MOZ_ASSERT(thread);
+#endif
   void* pc_array[1000];
   PCArray array = {
     pc_array,
     mozilla::ArrayLength(pc_array),
     0
   };
+#ifdef XP_MACOSX
+  nsresult rv = FramePointerStackWalk(StackWalkCallback, 1, &array, reinterpret_cast<void**>(fp));
+#else
   nsresult rv = NS_StackWalk(StackWalkCallback, 0, &array, thread);
+#endif
   if (NS_SUCCEEDED(rv)) {
     aProfile.addTag(ProfileEntry('s', "(root)", 0));
 
@@ -539,7 +548,7 @@ void TableTicker::Tick(TickSample* sample)
 
 #if defined(USE_BACKTRACE) || defined(USE_NS_STACKWALK)
   if (mUseStackWalk) {
-    doBacktrace(mProfile);
+    doBacktrace(mProfile, sample->fp);
   } else {
     doSampleStackTrace(mStack, mProfile, sample);
   }
diff --git a/tools/profiler/platform-macos.cc b/tools/profiler/platform-macos.cc
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..03784a74cf758a2a85f26075af9032ea2fe595dd
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tools/profiler/platform-macos.cc
@@ -0,0 +1,309 @@
+#include <dlfcn.h>
+#include <unistd.h>
+#include <sys/mman.h>
+#include <mach/mach_init.h>
+#include <mach-o/dyld.h>
+#include <mach-o/getsect.h>
+
+#include <AvailabilityMacros.h>
+
+#include <pthread.h>
+#include <semaphore.h>
+#include <signal.h>
+#include <libkern/OSAtomic.h>
+#include <mach/mach.h>
+#include <mach/semaphore.h>
+#include <mach/task.h>
+#include <mach/vm_statistics.h>
+#include <sys/time.h>
+#include <sys/resource.h>
+#include <sys/types.h>
+#include <sys/sysctl.h>
+#include <stdarg.h>
+#include <stdlib.h>
+#include <string.h>
+#include <errno.h>
+
+
+#include "platform.h"
+
+// this port is based off of v8 svn revision 9837
+
+// XXX: this is a very stubbed out implementation
+// that only supports a single Sampler
+struct SamplerRegistry {
+  static void AddActiveSampler(Sampler *sampler) {
+    ASSERT(!SamplerRegistry::sampler);
+    SamplerRegistry::sampler = sampler;
+  }
+  static void RemoveActiveSampler(Sampler *sampler) {
+    SamplerRegistry::sampler = NULL;
+  }
+  static Sampler *sampler;
+};
+
+Sampler *SamplerRegistry::sampler = NULL;
+
+// 0 is never a valid thread id on MacOSX since a ptread_t is
+// a pointer.
+static const pthread_t kNoThread = (pthread_t) 0;
+
+class MacOSMutex : public Mutex {
+ public:
+  MacOSMutex() {
+    pthread_mutexattr_t attr;
+    pthread_mutexattr_init(&attr);
+    pthread_mutexattr_settype(&attr, PTHREAD_MUTEX_RECURSIVE);
+    pthread_mutex_init(&mutex_, &attr);
+  }
+
+  virtual ~MacOSMutex() { pthread_mutex_destroy(&mutex_); }
+
+  virtual int Lock() { return pthread_mutex_lock(&mutex_); }
+  virtual int Unlock() { return pthread_mutex_unlock(&mutex_); }
+
+  virtual bool TryLock() {
+    int result = pthread_mutex_trylock(&mutex_);
+    // Return false if the lock is busy and locking failed.
+    if (result == EBUSY) {
+      return false;
+    }
+    ASSERT(result == 0);  // Verify no other errors.
+    return true;
+  }
+
+ private:
+  pthread_mutex_t mutex_;
+};
+
+
+Mutex* OS::CreateMutex() {
+  return new MacOSMutex();
+}
+
+void OS::Sleep(int milliseconds) {
+  usleep(1000 * milliseconds);
+}
+
+class Thread::PlatformData : public Malloced {
+ public:
+  PlatformData() : thread_(kNoThread) {}
+  pthread_t thread_;  // Thread handle for pthread.
+};
+
+Thread::Thread(const char* name)
+    : data_(new PlatformData),
+      stack_size_(0) {
+  set_name(name);
+}
+
+
+Thread::~Thread() {
+  delete data_;
+}
+
+
+static void SetThreadName(const char* name) {
+  // pthread_setname_np is only available in 10.6 or later, so test
+  // for it at runtime.
+  int (*dynamic_pthread_setname_np)(const char*);
+  *reinterpret_cast<void**>(&dynamic_pthread_setname_np) =
+    dlsym(RTLD_DEFAULT, "pthread_setname_np");
+  if (!dynamic_pthread_setname_np)
+    return;
+
+  // Mac OS X does not expose the length limit of the name, so hardcode it.
+  static const int kMaxNameLength = 63;
+  USE(kMaxNameLength);
+  ASSERT(Thread::kMaxThreadNameLength <= kMaxNameLength);
+  dynamic_pthread_setname_np(name);
+}
+
+
+static void* ThreadEntry(void* arg) {
+  Thread* thread = reinterpret_cast<Thread*>(arg);
+  // This is also initialized by the first argument to pthread_create() but we
+  // don't know which thread will run first (the original thread or the new
+  // one) so we initialize it here too.
+  thread->data()->thread_ = pthread_self();
+  SetThreadName(thread->name());
+  ASSERT(thread->data()->thread_ != kNoThread);
+  thread->Run();
+  return NULL;
+}
+
+
+void Thread::set_name(const char* name) {
+  strncpy(name_, name, sizeof(name_));
+  name_[sizeof(name_) - 1] = '\0';
+}
+
+
+void Thread::Start() {
+  pthread_attr_t* attr_ptr = NULL;
+  pthread_attr_t attr;
+  if (stack_size_ > 0) {
+    pthread_attr_init(&attr);
+    pthread_attr_setstacksize(&attr, static_cast<size_t>(stack_size_));
+    attr_ptr = &attr;
+  }
+  pthread_create(&data_->thread_, attr_ptr, ThreadEntry, this);
+  ASSERT(data_->thread_ != kNoThread);
+}
+
+void Thread::Join() {
+  pthread_join(data_->thread_, NULL);
+}
+
+class Sampler::PlatformData : public Malloced {
+ public:
+  PlatformData() : profiled_thread_(mach_thread_self()) {}
+
+  ~PlatformData() {
+    // Deallocate Mach port for thread.
+    mach_port_deallocate(mach_task_self(), profiled_thread_);
+  }
+
+  thread_act_t profiled_thread() { return profiled_thread_; }
+
+ private:
+  // Note: for profiled_thread_ Mach primitives are used instead of PThread's
+  // because the latter doesn't provide thread manipulation primitives required.
+  // For details, consult "Mac OS X Internals" book, Section 7.3.
+  thread_act_t profiled_thread_;
+};
+
+
+class SamplerThread : public Thread {
+ public:
+  explicit SamplerThread(int interval)
+      : Thread("SamplerThread"),
+        interval_(interval) {}
+
+  static void AddActiveSampler(Sampler* sampler) {
+    ScopedLock lock(mutex_);
+    SamplerRegistry::AddActiveSampler(sampler);
+    if (instance_ == NULL) {
+      instance_ = new SamplerThread(sampler->interval());
+      instance_->Start();
+    } else {
+      ASSERT(instance_->interval_ == sampler->interval());
+    }
+  }
+
+  static void RemoveActiveSampler(Sampler* sampler) {
+    ScopedLock lock(mutex_);
+    instance_->Join();
+    //XXX: unlike v8 we need to remove the active sampler after doing the Join
+    // because we drop the sampler immediately
+    SamplerRegistry::RemoveActiveSampler(sampler);
+    delete instance_;
+    instance_ = NULL;
+    /*
+    if (SamplerRegistry::GetState() == SamplerRegistry::HAS_NO_SAMPLERS) {
+      RuntimeProfiler::StopRuntimeProfilerThreadBeforeShutdown(instance_);
+      delete instance_;
+      instance_ = NULL;
+    }
+    */
+  }
+
+  // Implement Thread::Run().
+  virtual void Run() {
+    while (SamplerRegistry::sampler->IsActive()) {
+      SampleContext(SamplerRegistry::sampler);
+      OS::Sleep(interval_);
+    }
+  }
+
+  void SampleContext(Sampler* sampler) {
+    thread_act_t profiled_thread = sampler->platform_data()->profiled_thread();
+    TickSample sample_obj;
+    TickSample* sample = &sample_obj;
+    //TickSample* sample = CpuProfiler::TickSampleEvent(sampler->isolate());
+    //if (sample == NULL) sample = &sample_obj;
+
+    if (KERN_SUCCESS != thread_suspend(profiled_thread)) return;
+
+#if V8_HOST_ARCH_X64
+    thread_state_flavor_t flavor = x86_THREAD_STATE64;
+    x86_thread_state64_t state;
+    mach_msg_type_number_t count = x86_THREAD_STATE64_COUNT;
+#if __DARWIN_UNIX03
+#define REGISTER_FIELD(name) __r ## name
+#else
+#define REGISTER_FIELD(name) r ## name
+#endif  // __DARWIN_UNIX03
+#elif V8_HOST_ARCH_IA32
+    thread_state_flavor_t flavor = i386_THREAD_STATE;
+    i386_thread_state_t state;
+    mach_msg_type_number_t count = i386_THREAD_STATE_COUNT;
+#if __DARWIN_UNIX03
+#define REGISTER_FIELD(name) __e ## name
+#else
+#define REGISTER_FIELD(name) e ## name
+#endif  // __DARWIN_UNIX03
+#else
+#error Unsupported Mac OS X host architecture.
+#endif  // V8_HOST_ARCH
+
+    if (thread_get_state(profiled_thread,
+                         flavor,
+                         reinterpret_cast<natural_t*>(&state),
+                         &count) == KERN_SUCCESS) {
+      //sample->state = sampler->isolate()->current_vm_state();
+      sample->pc = reinterpret_cast<Address>(state.REGISTER_FIELD(ip));
+      sample->sp = reinterpret_cast<Address>(state.REGISTER_FIELD(sp));
+      sample->fp = reinterpret_cast<Address>(state.REGISTER_FIELD(bp));
+      sample->timestamp = mozilla::TimeStamp::Now();
+      sampler->SampleStack(sample);
+      sampler->Tick(sample);
+    }
+    thread_resume(profiled_thread);
+  }
+
+  const int interval_;
+  //RuntimeProfilerRateLimiter rate_limiter_;
+
+  // Protects the process wide state below.
+  static Mutex* mutex_;
+  static SamplerThread* instance_;
+
+  DISALLOW_COPY_AND_ASSIGN(SamplerThread);
+};
+
+#undef REGISTER_FIELD
+
+
+Mutex* SamplerThread::mutex_ = OS::CreateMutex();
+SamplerThread* SamplerThread::instance_ = NULL;
+
+
+Sampler::Sampler(int interval, bool profiling)
+    : // isolate_(isolate),
+      interval_(interval),
+      profiling_(profiling),
+      active_(false) /*,
+      samples_taken_(0)*/ {
+  data_ = new PlatformData;
+}
+
+
+Sampler::~Sampler() {
+  ASSERT(!IsActive());
+  delete data_;
+}
+
+
+void Sampler::Start() {
+  ASSERT(!IsActive());
+  SetActive(true);
+  SamplerThread::AddActiveSampler(this);
+}
+
+
+void Sampler::Stop() {
+  ASSERT(IsActive());
+  SetActive(false);
+  SamplerThread::RemoveActiveSampler(this);
+}