[GHC] #16349: Nondeterministic T3424 timeouts on CI

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#16349: Nondeterministic T3424 timeouts on CI
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        Reporter:  RyanGlScott       |                Owner:  (none)
            Type:  bug               |               Status:  new
        Priority:  normal            |            Milestone:
       Component:  Compiler          |              Version:  8.9
      Resolution:                    |             Keywords:
Operating System:  Unknown/Multiple  |         Architecture:
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 Type of failure:  None/Unknown      |            Test Case:
      Blocked By:                    |             Blocking:
 Related Tickets:                    |  Differential Rev(s):
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Description changed by RyanGlScott:

Old description:

> The `T3424` test suite occasionally times out on CI, forcing me to
> restart builds to get a green build status. Here is [https://ghc-
> gitlab.s3.amazonaws.com/6b/86/6b86b273ff34fce19d6b804eff5a3f5747ada4eaa22f1d49c01e52ddb7875b4b/2019_02_21/31580/50071/job.log
> ?response-content-type=text/plain%3B%20charset%3Dutf-8&response-content-
> disposition=inline&X-Amz-Expires=600&X-Amz-Date=20190221T105115Z&X-Amz-
> Algorithm=AWS4-HMAC-SHA256&X-Amz-Credential=AKIAI3NPPHETCY4XXTOA/20190221
> /us-east-1/s3/aws4_request&X-Amz-SignedHeaders=host&X-Amz-
> Signature=521f4993a8af6215a34603cb8dfb26f10e3f2a335229227e65b92aa4ced557e9
> one example] from a `validate-x86_64-linux-deb9-unreg` run:
>
> {{{
> Timeout happened...killed process "cd "rts/T3424.run" &&
> "/builds/ghc/ghc/inplace/bin/ghc-stage2" -o T3424 T3424.hs -dcore-lint
> -dstg-lint -dcmm-lint -no-user-package-db -rtsopts -optc-fno-builtin
> -fno-warn-missed-specialisations -fshow-warning-groups -fdiagnostics-
> color=never -fno-diagnostics-show-caret -Werror=compat -dno-debug-output
> "...
>
> Compile failed (exit code 99) errors were:
> [1 of 1] Compiling Main             ( T3424.hs, T3424.o )
>
> *** unexpected failure for T3424(normal)
>
> <elided>
>
> Unexpected results from:
> TEST="T3424"
>
> SUMMARY for test run started at Thu Feb 21 05:18:04 2019 UTC
>  1:15:50 spent to go through
>     6839 total tests, which gave rise to
>    21103 test cases, of which
>    13986 were skipped
>
>       38 had missing libraries
>     6977 expected passes
>      101 expected failures
>
>        0 caused framework failures
>        0 caused framework warnings
>        0 unexpected passes
>        1 unexpected failures
>        0 unexpected stat failures
>
> Unexpected failures:
>    rts/T3424.run  T3424 [exit code non-0] (normal)
> }}}

New description:

 The `T3424` test case occasionally times out on CI, forcing me to restart
 builds to get a green build status. Here is [https://ghc-
 gitlab.s3.amazonaws.com/6b/86/6b86b273ff34fce19d6b804eff5a3f5747ada4eaa22f1d49c01e52ddb7875b4b/2019_02_21/31580/50071/job.log
 ?response-content-type=text/plain%3B%20charset%3Dutf-8&response-content-
 disposition=inline&X-Amz-Expires=600&X-Amz-Date=20190221T105115Z&X-Amz-
 Algorithm=AWS4-HMAC-SHA256&X-Amz-Credential=AKIAI3NPPHETCY4XXTOA/20190221
 /us-east-1/s3/aws4_request&X-Amz-SignedHeaders=host&X-Amz-
 Signature=521f4993a8af6215a34603cb8dfb26f10e3f2a335229227e65b92aa4ced557e9
 one example] from a `validate-x86_64-linux-deb9-unreg` run:

 {{{
 Timeout happened...killed process "cd "rts/T3424.run" &&
 "/builds/ghc/ghc/inplace/bin/ghc-stage2" -o T3424 T3424.hs -dcore-lint
 -dstg-lint -dcmm-lint -no-user-package-db -rtsopts -optc-fno-builtin -fno-
 warn-missed-specialisations -fshow-warning-groups -fdiagnostics-
 color=never -fno-diagnostics-show-caret -Werror=compat -dno-debug-output
 "...

 Compile failed (exit code 99) errors were:
 [1 of 1] Compiling Main             ( T3424.hs, T3424.o )

 *** unexpected failure for T3424(normal)

 <elided>

 Unexpected results from:
 TEST="T3424"

 SUMMARY for test run started at Thu Feb 21 05:18:04 2019 UTC
  1:15:50 spent to go through
     6839 total tests, which gave rise to
    21103 test cases, of which
    13986 were skipped

       38 had missing libraries
     6977 expected passes
      101 expected failures

        0 caused framework failures
        0 caused framework warnings
        0 unexpected passes
        1 unexpected failures
        0 unexpected stat failures

 Unexpected failures:
    rts/T3424.run  T3424 [exit code non-0] (normal)
 }}}

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