[mitko]

This is the type of content that fills me with awe after a long day of meetings. Thank you OP!

It is not clear from the article if you booted linux 290K more times _after_ the bisect, or during the bisect.

[rwmj]

After, in order to try to confirm that the pre-commit kernel didn't have a latent bug. In other words that the commit clearly triggers the hang. (This doesn't necessarily prove that the commit is wrong - it might simply be exposing another bug that never occurred before, in fact that is the current thinking.)