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

[Chris Wilson]

Quoting Petri Latvala (2021-01-07 09:40:02)
> 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.

The taint is from the warnings in the penultimate test:
https://intel-gfx-ci.01.org/tree/drm-tip/CI_DRM_9550/shard-skl7/igt_runner20.txt
-Chris