diff --git a/cmds/atrace/atrace.rc b/cmds/atrace/atrace.rc
index 89ce1e5..3ec0163 100644
--- a/cmds/atrace/atrace.rc
+++ b/cmds/atrace/atrace.rc
@@ -6,6 +6,9 @@
     chmod 0222 /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/trace_marker
     chmod 0222 /sys/kernel/tracing/trace_marker
 
+# Scheduler tracepoints require schedstats=enable
+    write /proc/sys/kernel/sched_schedstats 1
+
 # Grant unix world read/write permissions to kernel tracepoints.
 # Access control to these files is now entirely in selinux policy.
     chmod 0666 /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/trace_clock