[igt-dev] [PATCH i-g-t v2] runner: Don't kill a test on taint if watching timeouts

[Petri Latvala]

On Wed, Jan 06, 2021 at 09:41:37AM +0000, Chris Wilson wrote:
> Quoting Janusz Krzysztofik (2020-12-04 19:50:07)
> > We may still be interested in results of a test even if it has tainted
> > the kernel.  On the other hand, we need to kill the test on taint if no
> > other means of killing it on a jam is active.
> > 
> > If abort on both kernel taint or a timeout is requested, decrease all
> > potential timeouts significantly while the taint is detected instead of
> > aborting immediately.  However, report the taint as the reason of the
> > abort if a timeout decreased by the taint expires.
> 
> This has the nasty side effect of not stopping the test run after a
> kernel taint. Instead the next test inherits the tainted condition from
> the previous test and usually ends up being declared incomplete.
> 
> False positives are frustrating.
> -Chris


Do you have a link to a test run where this happened? This patch
didn't change the between-tests abort checks.


-- 
Petri Latvala