From: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
To: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com>
Cc: linux-pwm@vger.kernel.org,
intel-gfx <intel-gfx@lists.freedesktop.org>,
"Rafael J . Wysocki" <rjw@rjwysocki.net>,
linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org,
"Thierry Reding" <thierry.reding@gmail.com>,
dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org,
"Rodrigo Vivi" <rodrigo.vivi@intel.com>,
"Uwe Kleine-König" <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de>,
"Mika Westerberg" <mika.westerberg@linux.intel.com>,
"Len Brown" <lenb@kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 07/16] pwm: crc: Fix period / duty_cycle times being off by a factor of 256
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 2020 22:36:34 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200728193634.GD3703480@smile.fi.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200717133753.127282-8-hdegoede@redhat.com>
On Fri, Jul 17, 2020 at 03:37:44PM +0200, Hans de Goede wrote:
> While looking into adding atomic-pwm support to the pwm-crc driver I
> noticed something odd, there is a PWM_BASE_CLK define of 6 MHz and
> there is a clock-divider which divides this with a value between 1-128,
> and there are 256 duty-cycle steps.
>
> The pwm-crc code before this commit assumed that a clock-divider
> setting of 1 means that the PWM output is running at 6 MHZ, if that
> is true, where do these 256 duty-cycle steps come from?
>
> This would require an internal frequency of 256 * 6 MHz = 1.5 GHz, that
> seems unlikely for a PMIC which is using a silicon process optimized for
> power-switching transistors. It is way more likely that there is an 8
> bit counter for the duty cycle which acts as an extra fixed divider
> wrt the PWM output frequency.
>
> The main user of the pwm-crc driver is the i915 GPU driver which uses it
> for backlight control. Lets compare the PWM register values set by the
> video-BIOS (the GOP), assuming the extra fixed divider is present versus
> the PWM frequency specified in the Video-BIOS-Tables:
>
> Device: PWM Hz set by BIOS PWM Hz specified in VBT
> Asus T100TA 200 200
> Asus T100HA 200 200
> Lenovo Miix 2 8 23437 20000
> Toshiba WT8-A 23437 20000
>
> So as we can see if we assume the extra division by 256 then the register
> values set by the GOP are an exact match for the VBT values, where as
> otherwise the values would be of by a factor of 256.
>
> This commit fixes the period / duty_cycle calculations to take the
> extra division by 256 into account.
So, base clock is 6MHz, then 7 bit divisor. That's what original values
were for. On top of that there is 8-bit duty cycle control ("divide by 256"
whatever it means) with the output range 23.437kHz..183Hz.
>
> Signed-off-by: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com>
> ---
> Changes in v3:
> - Use NSEC_PER_USEC instead of adding a new (non-sensical) NSEC_PER_MHZ define
> ---
> drivers/pwm/pwm-crc.c | 6 +++---
> 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/pwm/pwm-crc.c b/drivers/pwm/pwm-crc.c
> index 272eeb071147..c056eb9b858c 100644
> --- a/drivers/pwm/pwm-crc.c
> +++ b/drivers/pwm/pwm-crc.c
> @@ -21,8 +21,8 @@
>
> #define PWM_MAX_LEVEL 0xFF
>
> -#define PWM_BASE_CLK 6000000 /* 6 MHz */
> -#define PWM_MAX_PERIOD_NS 21333 /* 46.875KHz */
> +#define PWM_BASE_CLK_MHZ 6 /* 6 MHz */
> +#define PWM_MAX_PERIOD_NS 5461333 /* 183 Hz */
>
> /**
> * struct crystalcove_pwm - Crystal Cove PWM controller
> @@ -72,7 +72,7 @@ static int crc_pwm_config(struct pwm_chip *c, struct pwm_device *pwm,
>
> /* changing the clk divisor, need to disable fisrt */
> crc_pwm_disable(c, pwm);
> - clk_div = PWM_BASE_CLK * period_ns / NSEC_PER_SEC;
> + clk_div = PWM_BASE_CLK_MHZ * period_ns / (256 * NSEC_PER_USEC);
>
> regmap_write(crc_pwm->regmap, PWM0_CLK_DIV,
> clk_div | PWM_OUTPUT_ENABLE);
> --
> 2.26.2
>
--
With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko
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Thread overview: 40+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-07-17 13:37 [PATCH v5 00/16] acpi/pwm/i915: Convert pwm-crc and i915 driver's PWM code to use the atomic PWM API Hans de Goede
2020-07-17 13:37 ` [PATCH v5 01/16] ACPI / LPSS: Resume Cherry Trail PWM controller in no-irq phase Hans de Goede
2020-07-17 13:37 ` [PATCH v5 02/16] ACPI / LPSS: Save Cherry Trail PWM ctx registers only once (at activation) Hans de Goede
2020-07-17 13:37 ` [PATCH v5 03/16] pwm: lpss: Fix off by one error in base_unit math in pwm_lpss_prepare() Hans de Goede
2020-07-17 13:37 ` [PATCH v5 04/16] pwm: lpss: Add range limit check for the base_unit register value Hans de Goede
2020-07-17 13:37 ` [PATCH v5 05/16] pwm: lpss: Add pwm_lpss_prepare_enable() helper Hans de Goede
2020-07-28 18:45 ` Andy Shevchenko
2020-07-28 19:49 ` Hans de Goede
2020-07-17 13:37 ` [PATCH v5 06/16] pwm: lpss: Use pwm_lpss_apply() when restoring state on resume Hans de Goede
2020-07-28 18:57 ` Andy Shevchenko
2020-07-28 19:55 ` Hans de Goede
2020-07-29 8:12 ` Andy Shevchenko
2020-08-02 20:51 ` Hans de Goede
2020-08-03 8:41 ` Andy Shevchenko
2020-07-17 13:37 ` [PATCH v5 07/16] pwm: crc: Fix period / duty_cycle times being off by a factor of 256 Hans de Goede
2020-07-28 19:36 ` Andy Shevchenko [this message]
2020-07-28 20:00 ` Hans de Goede
2020-07-29 8:13 ` Andy Shevchenko
2020-07-17 13:37 ` [PATCH v5 08/16] pwm: crc: Fix off-by-one error in the clock-divider calculations Hans de Goede
2020-07-29 10:28 ` Andy Shevchenko
2020-07-17 13:37 ` [PATCH v5 09/16] pwm: crc: Fix period changes not having any effect Hans de Goede
2020-07-29 10:30 ` Andy Shevchenko
2020-07-17 13:37 ` [PATCH v5 10/16] pwm: crc: Enable/disable PWM output on enable/disable Hans de Goede
2020-07-29 10:32 ` Andy Shevchenko
2020-07-17 13:37 ` [PATCH v5 11/16] pwm: crc: Implement apply() method to support the new atomic PWM API Hans de Goede
2020-07-29 10:51 ` Andy Shevchenko
2020-07-17 13:37 ` [PATCH v5 12/16] pwm: crc: Implement get_state() method Hans de Goede
2020-07-17 13:37 ` [PATCH v5 13/16] drm/i915: panel: Add get_vbt_pwm_freq() helper Hans de Goede
2020-07-17 13:37 ` [PATCH v5 14/16] drm/i915: panel: Honor the VBT PWM frequency for devs with an external PWM controller Hans de Goede
2020-07-17 13:44 ` [PATCH v5 15/16] drm/i915: panel: Honor the VBT PWM min setting " Hans de Goede
2020-07-17 13:44 ` [PATCH v5 16/16] drm/i915: panel: Use atomic PWM API " Hans de Goede
2020-07-27 7:41 ` [PATCH v5 00/16] acpi/pwm/i915: Convert pwm-crc and i915 driver's PWM code to use the atomic PWM API Thierry Reding
2020-07-29 8:23 ` Andy Shevchenko
2020-07-29 9:32 ` Hans de Goede
2020-07-30 9:26 ` Thierry Reding
2020-08-01 14:33 ` Hans de Goede
2020-07-29 10:54 ` Andy Shevchenko
2020-08-01 14:38 ` Hans de Goede
2020-08-02 11:25 ` Andy Shevchenko
2020-08-02 19:43 ` Hans de Goede
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