From a987a8ed44b67c56fca7f2d30fd926e0ccd1c0aa Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: George Hotz <72895+geohot@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Sat, 20 Dec 2025 00:36:38 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] add neg VIZ support to not start server (#13772)

---
 tinygrad/runtime/ops_amd.py | 5 +++--
 tinygrad/uop/ops.py         | 2 +-
 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/tinygrad/runtime/ops_amd.py b/tinygrad/runtime/ops_amd.py
index 87e2060644..218cb9fb17 100644
--- a/tinygrad/runtime/ops_amd.py
+++ b/tinygrad/runtime/ops_amd.py
@@ -20,8 +20,9 @@ from tinygrad.runtime.support.amd import AMDReg, AMDIP, import_module, import_so
 from tinygrad.runtime.support.system import System, PCIIfaceBase, PCIAllocationMeta, PCIDevice, USBPCIDevice, MAP_FIXED, MAP_NORESERVE
 if getenv("IOCTL"): import extra.hip_gpu_driver.hip_ioctl  # noqa: F401 # pylint: disable=unused-import
 
-SQTT, SQTT_ITRACE_SE_MASK, SQTT_LIMIT_SE = ContextVar("SQTT", VIZ.value>=2), ContextVar("SQTT_ITRACE_SE_MASK", 0b11), ContextVar("SQTT_LIMIT_SE", 0)
-PMC = ContextVar("PMC", VIZ.value>=2)
+SQTT = ContextVar("SQTT", abs(VIZ.value)>=2)
+SQTT_ITRACE_SE_MASK, SQTT_LIMIT_SE = ContextVar("SQTT_ITRACE_SE_MASK", 0b11), ContextVar("SQTT_LIMIT_SE", 0)
+PMC = ContextVar("PMC", abs(VIZ.value)>=2)
 EVENT_INDEX_PARTIAL_FLUSH = 4 # based on a comment in nvd.h
 WAIT_REG_MEM_FUNCTION_EQ  = 3 # ==
 WAIT_REG_MEM_FUNCTION_NEQ = 4 # !=
diff --git a/tinygrad/uop/ops.py b/tinygrad/uop/ops.py
index b939fc6fa8..5830bde033 100644
--- a/tinygrad/uop/ops.py
+++ b/tinygrad/uop/ops.py
@@ -1174,7 +1174,7 @@ if TRACK_MATCH_STATS or PROFILE:
       with open(fn:=temp("rewrites.pkl", append_user=True), "wb") as f:
         print(f"rewrote {len(tracked_ctxs)} graphs and matched {sum(len(r.matches) for x in tracked_ctxs for r in x)} times, saved to {fn}")
         pickle.dump(RewriteTrace(tracked_keys, tracked_ctxs, uop_fields), f)
-    if VIZ: return launch_viz("VIZ", temp("rewrites.pkl", append_user=True))
+    if VIZ > 0: return launch_viz("VIZ", temp("rewrites.pkl", append_user=True))
     if getenv("PRINT_MATCH_STATS", TRACK_MATCH_STATS.value):
       ret = [0,0,0.0,0.0]
       for k,v in sorted(list(match_stats.items()), key=lambda x: x[1][2]+x[1][3]):