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); -- 2.41.0