Bug#1056171: librocblas0-tests: rocblas-test alarm timeout on slow hosts

[Cordell Bloor <cgmb@slerp.xyz>]

Package: librocblas0-tests
Version: 5.5.1+dfsg-3
Severity: important
X-Debbugs-Cc: cgmb@slerp.xyz

Dear Maintainer,

The rocblas-test executable sets a five-second alarm signal before it
executes some tests. If the alarm goes off before the test completes,
rocblas-test will abort, under the assumption that there was deadlock
that prevented the test from completing.

On slow hosts, such as lyra.rocm.debian.net, the timeout set for the
alarm is insufficient to complete the test even when everything is
functioning normally. This problem can be observed in the test logs for
amd64+gfx900 [1].

There is no single value that would be appropriate for the alarm timeout
on every machine, so the timeout should either be configurable at
runtime or entirely removed from the rocblas-test utility.

Sincerely,
Cory Bloor

[1]: https://ci.rocm.debian.net/data/autopkgtest/testing/amd64+gfx900/r/rocblas/913/log.gz

-- System Information:
Debian Release: trixie/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 6.5.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/32 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: unable to detect

Versions of packages librocblas0-tests depends on:
ii  libamdhip64-5            5.2.3-13
ii  libblas3 [libblas.so.3]  3.11.0-2
ii  libc6                    2.37-12
ii  libgcc-s1                13.2.0-5
ii  libgfortran5             13.2.0-5
ii  libquadmath0             13.2.0-5
ii  librocblas0              5.5.1+dfsg-3
ii  librocblas0-tests-data   5.5.1+dfsg-3
ii  libstdc++6               13.2.0-5

librocblas0-tests recommends no packages.

librocblas0-tests suggests no packages.

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