diff --git a/rootdir/init.rc b/rootdir/init.rc
index cf16f01..7a806f5 100644
--- a/rootdir/init.rc
+++ b/rootdir/init.rc
@@ -8,7 +8,6 @@
 import /init.usb.rc
 import /init.${ro.hardware}.rc
 import /init.${ro.zygote}.rc
-import /init.trace.rc
 
 on early-init
     # Set init and its forked children's oom_adj.
diff --git a/rootdir/init.trace.rc b/rootdir/init.trace.rc
deleted file mode 100644
index cde9c37..0000000
--- a/rootdir/init.trace.rc
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,62 +0,0 @@
-## Permissions to allow system-wide tracing to the kernel trace buffer.
-##
-on boot
-
-# Allow writing to the kernel trace log.
-    chmod 0222 /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/trace_marker
-
-# Allow the shell group to enable (some) kernel tracing.
-    chown root shell /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/trace_clock
-    chown root shell /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/buffer_size_kb
-    chown root shell /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/options/overwrite
-    chown root shell /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/options/print-tgid
-    chown root shell /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/events/sched/sched_switch/enable
-    chown root shell /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/events/sched/sched_wakeup/enable
-    chown root shell /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/events/power/cpu_frequency/enable
-    chown root shell /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/events/power/cpu_idle/enable
-    chown root shell /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/events/power/clock_set_rate/enable
-    chown root shell /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/events/cpufreq_interactive/enable
-    chown root shell /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/events/vmscan/mm_vmscan_direct_reclaim_begin/enable
-    chown root shell /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/events/vmscan/mm_vmscan_direct_reclaim_end/enable
-    chown root shell /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/events/vmscan/mm_vmscan_kswapd_wake/enable
-    chown root shell /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/events/vmscan/mm_vmscan_kswapd_sleep/enable
-    chown root shell /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/events/binder/binder_transaction/enable
-    chown root shell /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/events/binder/binder_transaction_received/enable
-    chown root shell /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/events/binder/binder_lock/enable
-    chown root shell /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/events/binder/binder_locked/enable
-    chown root shell /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/events/binder/binder_unlock/enable
-
-    chown root shell /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/tracing_on
-
-    chmod 0664 /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/trace_clock
-    chmod 0664 /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/buffer_size_kb
-    chmod 0664 /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/options/overwrite
-    chmod 0664 /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/options/print-tgid
-    chmod 0664 /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/events/sched/sched_switch/enable
-    chmod 0664 /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/events/sched/sched_wakeup/enable
-    chmod 0664 /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/events/power/cpu_frequency/enable
-    chmod 0664 /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/events/power/cpu_idle/enable
-    chmod 0664 /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/events/power/clock_set_rate/enable
-    chmod 0664 /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/events/cpufreq_interactive/enable
-    chmod 0664 /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/events/vmscan/mm_vmscan_direct_reclaim_begin/enable
-    chmod 0664 /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/events/vmscan/mm_vmscan_direct_reclaim_end/enable
-    chmod 0664 /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/events/vmscan/mm_vmscan_kswapd_wake/enable
-    chmod 0664 /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/events/vmscan/mm_vmscan_kswapd_sleep/enable
-    chmod 0664 /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/tracing_on
-    chmod 0664 /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/events/binder/binder_transaction/enable
-    chmod 0664 /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/events/binder/binder_transaction_received/enable
-    chmod 0664 /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/events/binder/binder_lock/enable
-    chmod 0664 /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/events/binder/binder_locked/enable
-    chmod 0664 /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/events/binder/binder_unlock/enable
-
-# Allow only the shell group to read and truncate the kernel trace.
-    chown root shell /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/trace
-    chmod 0660 /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/trace
-
-on property:persist.debug.atrace.boottrace=1
-    start boottrace
-
-# Run atrace with the categories written in a file
-service boottrace /system/bin/atrace --async_start -f /data/misc/boottrace/categories
-    disabled
-    oneshot