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SubjectRe: [PATCH V2 2/4] pwm: tegra: Increase precision in pwm rate calculation
On Thu, Apr 06, 2017 at 07:50:59PM +0530, Laxman Dewangan wrote:
> The rate of the PWM calculated as follows:
> hz = NSEC_PER_SEC / period_ns;
> rate = (rate + (hz / 2)) / hz;
>
> This has the precision loss in lower PWM rate.
> Changing this to have more precision as:
> hz = DIV_ROUND_CLOSE(NSEC_PER_SEC * 100, period_ns);
> rate = DIV_ROUND_CLOSE(rate * 100, hz)

DIV_ROUND_CLOSEST(). Also I very much prefer this notation over the
actual code below. I don't think we need a local variable to hold the
precision.

Thierry

> Example:
> 1. period_ns = 16672000, PWM clock rate is 200KHz.
> Based on old formula
> hz = NSEC_PER_SEC / period_ns
> = 1000000000ul/16672000
> = 59 (59.98)
> rate = (200K + 59/2)/59 = 3390
>
> Based on new method:
> hz = 5998
> rate = DIV_ROUND_CLOSE(200000*100, 5998) = 3334
>
> If we measure the PWM signal rate, we will get more accurate period
> with rate value of 3334 instead of 3390.
>
> 2. period_ns = 16803898, PWM clock rate is 200KHz.
> Based on old formula:
> hz = 60, rate = 3333
> Based on new formula:
> hz = 5951, rate = 3360
>
> The rate of 3360 is more near to requested period then the 3333.
>
> Signed-off-by: Laxman Dewangan <ldewangan@nvidia.com>
> ---
> Changes from V1:
> - None
>
> drivers/pwm/pwm-tegra.c | 8 ++++++--
> 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/pwm/pwm-tegra.c b/drivers/pwm/pwm-tegra.c
> index 0a688da..e9c4de5 100644
> --- a/drivers/pwm/pwm-tegra.c
> +++ b/drivers/pwm/pwm-tegra.c
> @@ -76,6 +76,8 @@ static int tegra_pwm_config(struct pwm_chip *chip, struct pwm_device *pwm,
> struct tegra_pwm_chip *pc = to_tegra_pwm_chip(chip);
> unsigned long long c = duty_ns;
> unsigned long rate, hz;
> + unsigned long long ns100 = NSEC_PER_SEC;
> + unsigned long precision = 100; /* Consider 2 digit precision */
> u32 val = 0;
> int err;
>
> @@ -94,9 +96,11 @@ static int tegra_pwm_config(struct pwm_chip *chip, struct pwm_device *pwm,
> * cycles at the PWM clock rate will take period_ns nanoseconds.
> */
> rate = clk_get_rate(pc->clk) >> PWM_DUTY_WIDTH;
> - hz = NSEC_PER_SEC / period_ns;
>
> - rate = (rate + (hz / 2)) / hz;
> + /* Consider precision in PWM_SCALE_WIDTH rate calculation */
> + ns100 *= precision;
> + hz = DIV_ROUND_CLOSEST_ULL(ns100, period_ns);
> + rate = DIV_ROUND_CLOSEST(rate * precision, hz);
>
> /*
> * Since the actual PWM divider is the register's frequency divider
> --
> 2.1.4
>
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