diff --git a/compiler-rt/test/tsan/CMakeLists.txt b/compiler-rt/test/tsan/CMakeLists.txt
--- a/compiler-rt/test/tsan/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/compiler-rt/test/tsan/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -19,6 +19,10 @@
 
 set(TSAN_TESTSUITES)
 
+if (NOT DEFINED TSAN_TEST_DEFLAKE_THRESHOLD)
+  set(TSAN_TEST_DEFLAKE_THRESHOLD "10")
+endif()
+
 set(TSAN_TEST_ARCH ${TSAN_SUPPORTED_ARCH})
 if(APPLE)
   darwin_filter_host_archs(TSAN_SUPPORTED_ARCH TSAN_TEST_ARCH)
diff --git a/compiler-rt/test/tsan/deflake.bash b/compiler-rt/test/tsan/deflake.bash
--- a/compiler-rt/test/tsan/deflake.bash
+++ b/compiler-rt/test/tsan/deflake.bash
@@ -1,13 +1,22 @@
 #!/usr/bin/env bash
 # This script is used to deflake inherently flaky tsan tests.
 # It is invoked from lit tests as:
-# %deflake mybinary
+# %deflake $THRESHOLD  mybinary
 # which is then substituted by lit to:
-# $(dirname %s)/deflake.bash mybinary
-# The script runs the target program up to 10 times,
+# $(dirname %s)/deflake.bash $THRESHOLD mybinary
+# - When TSAN_TEST_DEFLAKE_THRESHOLD is defined to a positive integer value,
+#   THRESHOLD will be the defined value.
+# - When TSAN_TEST_DEFLAKE_THRESHOLD is not defined, THRESHOLD will be 10.
+# The script runs the target program up to $THRESHOLD times,
 # until it fails (i.e. produces a race report).
 
-for i in $(seq 1 10); do
+THRESHOLD=${1}
+shift
+
+#Early exit if $THRESHOLD is not a non-negative integer
+[[ !  ${THRESHOLD} =~ ^[0-9]+$ ]] && exit 1
+
+for i in $(seq 1 ${THRESHOLD}); do
 	OUT=`$@ 2>&1`
 	if [[ $? != 0 ]]; then
 		echo "$OUT"
diff --git a/compiler-rt/test/tsan/lit.cfg.py b/compiler-rt/test/tsan/lit.cfg.py
--- a/compiler-rt/test/tsan/lit.cfg.py
+++ b/compiler-rt/test/tsan/lit.cfg.py
@@ -75,7 +75,7 @@
 # Define CHECK-%os to check for OS-dependent output.
 config.substitutions.append( ('CHECK-%os', ("CHECK-" + config.host_os)))
 
-config.substitutions.append( ("%deflake ", os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__), "deflake.bash") + " "))
+config.substitutions.append( ("%deflake ", os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__), "deflake.bash") + " " + config.deflake_threshold))
 
 # Default test suffixes.
 config.suffixes = ['.c', '.cpp', '.m', '.mm']
diff --git a/compiler-rt/test/tsan/lit.site.cfg.py.in b/compiler-rt/test/tsan/lit.site.cfg.py.in
--- a/compiler-rt/test/tsan/lit.site.cfg.py.in
+++ b/compiler-rt/test/tsan/lit.site.cfg.py.in
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@
 config.apple_platform = "@TSAN_TEST_APPLE_PLATFORM@"
 config.target_cflags = "@TSAN_TEST_TARGET_CFLAGS@"
 config.target_arch = "@TSAN_TEST_TARGET_ARCH@"
+config.deflake_threshold = "@TSAN_TEST_DEFLAKE_THRESHOLD@"
 
 # Load common config for all compiler-rt lit tests.
 lit_config.load_config(config, "@COMPILER_RT_BINARY_DIR@/test/lit.common.configured")