[PATCH umr] Avoid opening the DRM file by default

Tom St Denis tom.stdenis at amd.com
Thu Apr 27 16:41:23 UTC 2017


Opening the DRM file (/dev/dri/card%d) triggers all sorts of KMD
work to happen which is not useful if the KMD is hung or not working.

Since --top is the only user of the file currently we simply defer
opening it until --top is invoked.

Signed-off-by: Tom St Denis <tom.stdenis at amd.com>
---
 src/app/top.c      | 7 +++++++
 src/lib/discover.c | 3 +--
 2 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/app/top.c b/src/app/top.c
index 364180eb70f6..a4d3aa8e699d 100644
--- a/src/app/top.c
+++ b/src/app/top.c
@@ -933,8 +933,15 @@ void umr_top(struct umr_asic *asic)
 	time_t tt;
 	uint64_t ts;
 	char hostname[64] = { 0 };
+	char fname[64];
 	pthread_t sensor_thread;
 
+	// open drm file if not already open
+	if (asic->fd.drm < 0) {
+		snprintf(fname, sizeof(fname)-1, "/dev/dri/card%d", asic->instance);
+		asic->fd.drm = open(fname, O_RDWR);
+	}
+
 	if (getenv("HOSTNAME")) strcpy(hostname, getenv("HOSTNAME"));
 
 	// init stats
diff --git a/src/lib/discover.c b/src/lib/discover.c
index d561efafe4d4..c9c2f74a4818 100644
--- a/src/lib/discover.c
+++ b/src/lib/discover.c
@@ -127,8 +127,7 @@ struct umr_asic *umr_discover_asic(struct umr_options *options)
 		asic->fd.vram = open(fname, O_RDWR);
 		snprintf(fname, sizeof(fname)-1, "/sys/kernel/debug/dri/%d/amdgpu_gpr", asic->instance);
 		asic->fd.gpr = open(fname, O_RDWR);
-		snprintf(fname, sizeof(fname)-1, "/dev/dri/card%d", asic->instance);
-		asic->fd.drm = open(fname, O_RDWR);
+		asic->fd.drm = -1; // default to closed
 		// if appending to the fd list remember to update close_asic() and discover_by_did()...
 
 		if (options->use_pci) {
-- 
2.12.0



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