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Diffstat (limited to 'pkg/vcs/linux.go')
| -rw-r--r-- | pkg/vcs/linux.go | 8 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/pkg/vcs/linux.go b/pkg/vcs/linux.go index c6effd58a..341e488f4 100644 --- a/pkg/vcs/linux.go +++ b/pkg/vcs/linux.go @@ -379,7 +379,13 @@ type minimizeLinuxCtx struct { func (ctx *minimizeLinuxCtx) minimizeAgainst(base *kconfig.ConfigFile) error { base = base.Clone() ctx.transform(base) - minConfig, err := ctx.kconf.Minimize(base, ctx.config, ctx.pred, ctx) + // Don't do too many minimization runs, it will make bug bisections too long. + // The purpose is only to reduce the number of build/boot/test errors due to bugs + // in unrelated parts of the kernel. + // Bisection is not getting much faster with smaller configs, only more reliable, + // so there's a trade-off. Try to do best in 5 iterations, that's about 1.5 hours. + const minimizeRuns = 5 + minConfig, err := ctx.kconf.Minimize(base, ctx.config, ctx.pred, minimizeRuns, ctx) if err != nil { return err } |