diff --git a/cmds/atrace/Android.mk b/cmds/atrace/Android.mk
index 028ca8f..a787e95 100644
--- a/cmds/atrace/Android.mk
+++ b/cmds/atrace/Android.mk
@@ -17,4 +17,6 @@
     libutils \
     libz \
 
+LOCAL_INIT_RC := atrace.rc
+
 include $(BUILD_EXECUTABLE)
diff --git a/cmds/atrace/atrace.rc b/cmds/atrace/atrace.rc
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..cde9c37
--- /dev/null
+++ b/cmds/atrace/atrace.rc
@@ -0,0 +1,62 @@
+## 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