diff --git a/tools/tracing/rtla/.gitignore b/tools/tracing/rtla/.gitignore
index c7b4bf1c8ba9..2a1c99ddd1bf 100644
--- a/tools/tracing/rtla/.gitignore
+++ b/tools/tracing/rtla/.gitignore
@@ -1,14 +1,9 @@
 # SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only
-rtla
-rtla-static
-unit_tests
+/rtla
+/rtla-static
+/unit_tests
 fixdep
 feature
 FEATURE-DUMP
 *.skel.h
-custom_filename.txt
-osnoise_irq_noise_hist.txt
-osnoise_trace.txt
-timerlat_trace.txt
-libsubcmd/
-lib/
+/libsubcmd/