[RFC] drm/msm/rd: Check PT_PTRACED for cmdstream dumping

From: Rob Clark
Date: Thu Sep 14 2023 - 13:26:39 EST


From: Rob Clark <robdclark@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

So, when you want to get a cmdstream trace of some deqp or piglit test,
but you happen to be running it on the same laptop with full desktop
env, the current dump-everything firehose of `cat $debugfs/dri/n/rd` is
quite a bit too much. Ptrace seemed kind of a natural way to control
it, ie. either run what you want to trace under gdb or hack in a
ptrace(PTRACE_TRACEME) call.

Signed-off-by: Rob Clark <robdclark@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/gpu/drm/msm/msm_gem_submit.c | 3 ++-
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/msm/msm_gem_submit.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/msm/msm_gem_submit.c
index a908373cf34b..a105ca1f2102 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/msm/msm_gem_submit.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/msm/msm_gem_submit.c
@@ -979,7 +979,8 @@ int msm_ioctl_gem_submit(struct drm_device *dev, void *data,
/* The scheduler owns a ref now: */
msm_gem_submit_get(submit);

- msm_rd_dump_submit(priv->rd, submit, NULL);
+ if (current->ptrace & PT_PTRACED)
+ msm_rd_dump_submit(priv->rd, submit, NULL);

pm_runtime_get_sync(&gpu->pdev->dev);

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2.41.0