diff --git a/rootdir/init.rc b/rootdir/init.rc
index 12d9c4377..5bb64cc60 100644
--- a/rootdir/init.rc
+++ b/rootdir/init.rc
@@ -70,6 +70,9 @@ on early-init
 
     start ueventd
 
+    # Mount tracefs (with GID=AID_READTRACEFS)
+    mount tracefs tracefs /sys/kernel/tracing gid=3012
+
     # Run apexd-bootstrap so that APEXes that provide critical libraries
     # become available. Note that this is executed as exec_start to ensure that
     # the libraries are available to the processes started after this statement.
@@ -80,9 +83,6 @@ on early-init
     mkdir /dev/boringssl 0755 root root
     mkdir /dev/boringssl/selftest 0755 root root
 
-    # Mount tracefs (with GID=AID_READTRACEFS)
-    mount tracefs tracefs /sys/kernel/tracing gid=3012
-
     # create sys dirctory
     mkdir /dev/sys 0755 system system
     mkdir /dev/sys/fs 0755 system system