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From: Paul Cercueil <paul@crapouillou.net>
To: "Uwe Kleine-König" <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de>,
	"Stephen Boyd" <sboyd@kernel.org>
Cc: Thierry Reding <thierry.reding@gmail.com>,
	Rob Herring <robh+dt@kernel.org>,
	Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>,
	Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@linaro.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>,
	Paul Burton <paul.burton@mips.com>,
	James Hogan <jhogan@kernel.org>, Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>,
	linux-pwm@vger.kernel.org, devicetree@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-watchdog@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-mips@vger.kernel.org, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-clk@vger.kernel.org, Russell King <linux@armlinux.org.uk>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v9 14/27] pwm: jz4740: Improve algorithm of clock calculation
Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2019 11:04:56 -0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1547129096.16183.0@crapouillou.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190105212711.s765knwwerceytvk@pengutronix.de>

Adding Stephen to the discussion.
Adding Stephen to the discussion.

On Sat, Jan 5, 2019 at 6:27 PM, Uwe Kleine-König 
<u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de> wrote:
> Hello Paul,
> 
> On Sat, Jan 05, 2019 at 06:05:38PM -0300, Paul Cercueil wrote:
>>  On Sat, Jan 5, 2019 at 4:57 PM, Uwe Kleine-König
>>  <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de> wrote:
>>  > You are assuming stuff here about the parent clk which isn't 
>> guaranteed
>>  > (AFAICT) by the clk framework: If you call clk_round_rate(clk, 
>> rate - 1)
>>  > this might well return rate even if the clock could run slower 
>> than
>>  > rate.
>> 
>>  It may not be guaranteed by the clock framework itself, but it is 
>> guaranteed
>>  to behave like that on this family of SoCs.
> 
> You shouldn't rely on that. Experience shows that people will start
> copying code to machines where this is not guaranteed. Even if they
> don't copy and only learn from reading this is bad. Also how do you
> guarantee that this won't change in the future making the pwm code 
> break
> without noticing?
> 
> If you use an API better don't assume more things given than are
> guaranteed by the API.
> 
> Having said that I would consider it sensible to introduce something
> like clk_roundup_rate() and clk_rounddown_rate() which would allow
> calculations like that.

@Stephen:
Some context: my algorithm makes use of clk_round_rate(clk, rate - 1) 
to get the
next (smaller) clock rate that a clock support.

Is it something safe to assume? If not is there a better way?

>>  > Wouldn't it make sense to start iterating with rate = 0xffff * 
>> 1e9 /
>>  > period? Otherwise you get bad configurations if rate is 
>> considerable
>>  > slower than necessary.
>> 
>>  The algorithm will start with 'rate' being the parent clock's rate, 
>> which
>>  will always be the highest rate that the child clock will support.
> 
> Ah right, I missed that bit.

Thanks,
-Paul


  reply	other threads:[~2019-01-10 14:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 43+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-12-27 18:12 [PATCH v9 00/27] Ingenic TCU patchset v9 Paul Cercueil
2018-12-27 18:12 ` [PATCH v9 01/27] dt-bindings: ingenic: Add DT bindings for TCU clocks Paul Cercueil
2018-12-27 18:12 ` [PATCH v9 02/27] doc: Add doc for the Ingenic TCU hardware Paul Cercueil
2018-12-27 18:12 ` [PATCH v9 03/27] dt-bindings: Add doc for the Ingenic TCU drivers Paul Cercueil
2018-12-28 21:48   ` Rob Herring
2018-12-27 18:12 ` [PATCH v9 04/27] clocksource: Add a new timer-ingenic driver Paul Cercueil
2019-02-25 15:55   ` Daniel Lezcano
2019-02-25 22:59     ` Paul Cercueil
2018-12-27 18:12 ` [PATCH v9 05/27] clocksource: Add driver for the Ingenic JZ47xx OST Paul Cercueil
2018-12-27 18:12 ` [PATCH v9 06/27] MAINTAINERS: Add myself as maintainer for Ingenic TCU drivers Paul Cercueil
2018-12-27 18:12 ` [PATCH v9 07/27] watchdog: jz4740: Use WDT clock provided by TCU driver Paul Cercueil
2018-12-27 18:13 ` [PATCH v9 08/27] watchdog: jz4740: Use regmap " Paul Cercueil
2018-12-27 18:13 ` [PATCH v9 09/27] watchdog: jz4740: Avoid starting watchdog in set_timeout Paul Cercueil
2018-12-27 18:13 ` [PATCH v9 10/27] watchdog: jz4740: Drop dependency on MACH_JZ47xx, use COMPILE_TEST Paul Cercueil
2018-12-27 18:13 ` [PATCH v9 11/27] pwm: jz4740: Apply configuration atomically Paul Cercueil
2018-12-27 18:13 ` [PATCH v9 12/27] pwm: jz4740: Use regmap from TCU driver Paul Cercueil
2019-01-05 19:42   ` Uwe Kleine-König
2019-01-05 20:46     ` Paul Cercueil
2019-01-05 21:18       ` Uwe Kleine-König
2018-12-27 18:13 ` [PATCH v9 13/27] pwm: jz4740: Use clocks " Paul Cercueil
2019-01-05 19:45   ` Uwe Kleine-König
2019-01-05 20:52     ` Paul Cercueil
2019-01-05 21:19       ` Uwe Kleine-König
2018-12-27 18:13 ` [PATCH v9 14/27] pwm: jz4740: Improve algorithm of clock calculation Paul Cercueil
2019-01-05 19:57   ` Uwe Kleine-König
2019-01-05 21:05     ` Paul Cercueil
2019-01-05 21:27       ` Uwe Kleine-König
2019-01-10 14:04         ` Paul Cercueil [this message]
2019-02-23  1:17           ` Paul Cercueil
2019-02-28 18:42             ` Stephen Boyd
2018-12-27 18:13 ` [PATCH v9 15/27] pwm: jz4740: Allow selection of PWM channels 0 and 1 Paul Cercueil
2018-12-27 18:13 ` [PATCH v9 16/27] pwm: jz4740: Drop dependency on MACH_INGENIC, use COMPILE_TEST Paul Cercueil
2018-12-27 18:13 ` [PATCH v9 17/27] pwm: jz4740: Remove unused devicetree compatible strings Paul Cercueil
2018-12-27 18:13 ` [PATCH v9 18/27] clk: jz4740: Add TCU clock Paul Cercueil
2018-12-27 18:13 ` [PATCH v9 19/27] MIPS: Kconfig: Select TCU timer driver when MACH_INGENIC is set Paul Cercueil
2018-12-27 18:13 ` [PATCH v9 20/27] MIPS: jz4740: Add DTS nodes for the TCU drivers Paul Cercueil
2018-12-27 18:13 ` [PATCH v9 21/27] MIPS: qi_lb60: Move PWM devices to devicetree Paul Cercueil
2018-12-27 18:13 ` [PATCH v9 22/27] MIPS: qi_lb60: Reduce system timer and clocksource to 750 kHz Paul Cercueil
2018-12-27 18:13 ` [PATCH v9 23/27] MIPS: CI20: Reduce system timer to 3 MHz Paul Cercueil
2018-12-27 18:13 ` [PATCH v9 24/27] MIPS: CI20: defconfig: enable OST driver Paul Cercueil
2018-12-27 18:13 ` [PATCH v9 25/27] MIPS: GCW0: Reduce system timer to 750 kHz Paul Cercueil
2018-12-27 18:13 ` [PATCH v9 26/27] MIPS: GCW0: defconfig: Enable OST, watchdog, PWM drivers Paul Cercueil
2018-12-27 18:13 ` [PATCH v9 27/27] MIPS: jz4740: Drop obsolete code Paul Cercueil

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