pkg/bisect: detect when too many instances errored

We currently skip a commit iff all 10 instances errored.
But if, say, only 9 errored we consider it as OK,
but this significnalty reduces chances of detecting flaky crashes.
So skip if more than 2/3 errored.

Update #501
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Dmitry Vyukov 2019-03-22 12:56:42 +01:00
parent 9ad9ef29ca
commit 028c09511b

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@ -275,7 +275,8 @@ func (env *env) test() (vcs.BisectResult, *vcs.Commit, *report.Report, error) {
return vcs.BisectSkip, current, nil, nil
}
testStart := time.Now()
results, err := env.inst.Test(10, cfg.Repro.Syz, cfg.Repro.Opts, cfg.Repro.C)
const numTests = 10
results, err := env.inst.Test(numTests, cfg.Repro.Syz, cfg.Repro.Opts, cfg.Repro.C)
env.testTime += time.Since(testStart)
if err != nil {
env.log("failed: %v", err)
@ -285,6 +286,10 @@ func (env *env) test() (vcs.BisectResult, *vcs.Commit, *report.Report, error) {
res := vcs.BisectSkip
if bad != 0 {
res = vcs.BisectBad
} else if numTests-good-bad > numTests/3*2 {
// More than 2/3 of instances failed with infrastructure error,
// can't reliably tell that the commit is good.
res = vcs.BisectSkip
} else if good != 0 {
res = vcs.BisectGood
}