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On boot, Android runs restorecon on a number of virtual directories,
such as /sys and /sys/kernel/debug, to ensure that the SELinux labels
are correct. To avoid causing excessive boot time delays, the restorecon
code aggressively prunes directories, to avoid recursing down directory
trees which will never have a matching SELinux label.

See:
* https://android-review.googlesource.com/93401
* https://android-review.googlesource.com/109103

The key to this optimization is avoiding unnecessarily broad regular
expressions in file_contexts. If an overly broad regex exists, the tree
pruning code is ineffective, and the restorecon ends up visiting lots of
unnecessary directories.

The directory /sys/kernel/debug/tracing contains approximately 4500
files normally, and on debuggable builds, this number can jump to over
9000 files when the processing from wifi-events.rc occurs. For
comparison, the entire /sys/kernel/debug tree (excluding
/sys/kernel/debug/tracing) only contains approximately 8000 files. The
regular expression "/sys/kernel(/debug)?/tracing/(.*)?" ends up matching
a significant number of files, which impacts boot performance.

Instead of using an overly broad regex, refine the regex so only the
files needed have an entry in file_contexts. This list of files is
essentially a duplicate of the entries in
frameworks/native/cmds/atrace/atrace.rc .

This change reduces the restorecon_recursive call for /sys/kernel/debug
from approximately 260ms to 40ms, a boot time reduction of approximately
220ms.

Bug: 35248779
Test: device boots, no SELinux denials, faster boot.
Change-Id: I70f8af102762ec0180546b05fcf014c097135f3e