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    ktest: Add BISECT_TRIES to bisect test · 961d9cac
    Steven Rostedt (Red Hat) authored
    For those cases that it takes several tries to hit a bug, it would be
    useful for ktest.pl to try a test multiple times before it considers
    the test as a pass. To accomplish this, BISECT_TRIES ktest config
    option has been added. It is default to one, as most of the time a
    bisect only needs to try a test once. But the user can now up this
    to make ktest run a given test multiple times. The first failure
    that is detected will set a bisect bad. It only repeats on success.
    
    Note, as with all race bugs, there's no guarantee that if it succeeds,
    it is really a good bisect. But it helps in case the bug is somewhat
    reliable.
    
    You can set BISECT_TRIES to zero, and all tests will be considered
    good, unless you also set BISECT_MANUAL.
    Suggested-by: default avatar"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarSteven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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