diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/rcutorture/bin/functions.sh b/tools/testing/selftests/rcutorture/bin/functions.sh
old mode 100644
new mode 100755
index b8e2ea23cb3f..6e415ddb206f
--- a/tools/testing/selftests/rcutorture/bin/functions.sh
+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/rcutorture/bin/functions.sh
@@ -331,3 +331,32 @@ specify_qemu_net () {
 		echo $1 -net none
 	fi
 }
+
+# Extract the ftrace output from the console log output
+# The ftrace output in the original logs look like:
+# Dumping ftrace buffer:
+# ---------------------------------
+# [...]
+# ---------------------------------
+extract_ftrace_from_console() {
+	awk < "$1" '
+
+	/Dumping ftrace buffer:/ {
+		buffer_count++
+		print "Ftrace dump " buffer_count ":"
+		capture = 1
+		next
+	}
+
+	/---------------------------------/ {
+		if(capture == 1) {
+			capture = 2
+			next
+		} else if(capture == 2) {
+			capture = 0
+			print ""
+		}
+	}
+
+	capture == 2'
+}
diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/rcutorture/bin/parse-console.sh b/tools/testing/selftests/rcutorture/bin/parse-console.sh
index 9ab0f6bc172c..e3d2f69ec0fb 100755
--- a/tools/testing/selftests/rcutorture/bin/parse-console.sh
+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/rcutorture/bin/parse-console.sh
@@ -182,3 +182,10 @@ if ! test -s $file.diags
 then
 	rm -f $file.diags
 fi
+
+# Call extract_ftrace_from_console function, if the output is empty,
+# don't create $file.ftrace. Otherwise output the results to $file.ftrace
+extract_ftrace_from_console $file > $file.ftrace
+if [ ! -s $file.ftrace ]; then
+	rm -f $file.ftrace
+fi