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SubjectRe: [PATCH 4/7] pwm: jz4740: Improve algorithm of clock calculation


Le mar. 13 août 2019 à 7:27, Uwe =?iso-8859-1?q?Kleine-K=F6nig?=
<u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de> a écrit :
> Hello Paul,
>
> [adding Stephen Boyd to Cc]
>
> On Tue, Aug 13, 2019 at 12:16:23AM +0200, Paul Cercueil wrote:
>> Le lun. 12 août 2019 à 23:48, Uwe Kleine-König a écrit :
>> > On Mon, Aug 12, 2019 at 10:43:10PM +0200, Paul Cercueil wrote:
>> > > Le lun. 12 août 2019 à 8:15, Uwe Kleine-König a écrit :
>> > > > On Fri, Aug 09, 2019 at 07:14:45PM +0200, Paul Cercueil wrote:
>> > > > > Le ven. 9 août 2019 à 19:05, Uwe Kleine-König a écrit :
>> > > > > > On Fri, Aug 09, 2019 at 02:30:28PM +0200, Paul Cercueil
>> wrote:
>> > > > > > > [...]
>> > > > > > > + /* Reset the clock to the maximum rate, and we'll
>> reduce it if needed */
>> > > > > > > + ret = clk_set_max_rate(clk, parent_rate);
>> > > > > >
>> > > > > > What is the purpose of this call? IIUC this limits the
>> allowed range of
>> > > > > > rates for clk. I assume the idea is to prevent other
>> consumers to change
>> > > > > > the rate in a way that makes it unsuitable for this pwm.
>> But this only
>> > > > > > makes sense if you had a notifier for clk changes,
>> doesn't it? I'm
>> > > > > > confused.
>> > > > >
>> > > > > Nothing like that. The second call to clk_set_max_rate()
>> might have set
>> > > > > a maximum clock rate that's lower than the parent's rate,
>> and we want to
>> > > > > undo that.
>> > > >
>> > > > I still don't get the purpose of this call. Why do you limit
>> the clock
>> > > > rate at all?
>> > >
>> > > As it says below, we "limit the clock to a maximum rate that
>> still gives
>> > > us a period value which fits in 16 bits". So that the computed
>> hardware
>> > > values won't overflow.
>> >
>> > But why not just using clk_set_rate? You want to have the clock
>> running
>> > at a certain rate, not any rate below that certain rate, don't
>> you?
>>
>> I'll let yourself answer yourself:
>> https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/1018969/
>
> In that thread I claimed that you used clk_round_rate wrongly, not
> that
> you should use clk_set_max_rate(). (The claim was somewhat weakend by
> Stephen, but still I think that clk_round_rate is the right approach.)

Well, you said that I shouln't rely on the fact that clk_round_rate()
will round down. That completely defeats the previous algorithm. So
please tell me how to use it correctly, because I don't see it.

I came up with a much smarter alternative, that doesn't rely on the
rounding method of clk_round_rate, and which is better overall (no loop
needed). It sounds to me like you're bashing the code without making
the effort to understand what it does.

Thierry called it a "neat trick"
(https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/10836879/) so it cannot be as bad
as you say.


>
> The upside of clk_round_rate is that it allows you to test for the
> capabilities of the clock without actually changing it before you
> found
> a setting you consider to be good.

I know what clk_round_rate() is for. But here we don't do
trial-and-error to find the first highest clock rate that works, we
compute the maximum clock we can use and limit the clock rate to that.


>
>> It's enough to run it below a certain rate, yes. The actual rate
>> doesn't
>> actually matter that much.
>
> 1 Hz would be fine? I doubt it.

We use the highest possible clock rate. We wouldn't use 1 Hz unless
it's the highest clock rate available.


>
>> > > E.g. if at a rate of 12 MHz your computed hardware value for
>> the period
>> > > is 0xf000, then at a rate of 24 MHz it won't fit in 16 bits.
>> So the clock
>> > > rate must be reduced to the highest possible that will still
>> give you a
>> > > < 16-bit value.
>> > >
>> > > We always want the highest possible clock rate that works, for
>> the sake of
>> > > precision.
>> >
>> > This is dubious; but ok to keep the driver simple. (Consider a
>> PWM that
>> > can run at i MHz for i in [1, .. 30]. If a period of 120 ns and a
>> duty
>> > cycle of 40 ns is requested you can get an exact match with 25
>> MHz, but
>> > not with 30 MHz.)
>>
>> The clock rate is actually (parent_rate >> (2 * x) )
>> for x = 0, 1, 2, ...
>>
>> So if your parent_rate is 30 MHz the next valid one is 7.5 MHz, and
>> the
>> next one is 1.875 MHz. It'd be very unlikely that you get a better
>> match at
>> a lower clock.
>
> If the smaller freqs are all dividers of the fastest that's fine.
> Please
> note in a code comment that you're assuming this.

No, I am not assuming this. The current driver just picks the highest
clock rate that works. We're not changing the behaviour here.


>
>> > > > > Basically, we start from the maximum clock rate we can
>> get for that PWM
>> > > > > - which is the rate of the parent clk - and from that
>> compute the maximum
>> > > > > clock rate that we can support that still gives us <
>> 16-bits hardware
>> > > > > values for the period and duty.
>> > > > >
>> > > > > We then pass that computed maximum clock rate to
>> clk_set_max_rate(), which
>> > > > > may or may not update the current PWM clock's rate to
>> match the new limits.
>> > > > > Finally we read back the PWM clock's rate and compute the
>> period and duty
>> > > > > from that.
>> > > >
>> > > > If you change the clk rate, is this externally visible on
>> the PWM
>> > > > output? Does this affect other PWM instances?
>> > >
>> > > The clock rate doesn't change the PWM output because the
>> hardware values for
>> > > the period and duty are adapted accordingly to reflect the
>> change.
>> >
>> > It doesn't change it in the end. But in the (short) time frame
>> between
>> > the call to change the clock and the update of the PWM registers
>> there
>> > is a glitch, right?
>>
>> The PWM is disabled, so the line is in inactive state, and will be
>> in that state
>> until the PWM is enabled again. No glitch to fear.
>
> ok, please note in the commit log that the reordering doesn't affect
> the
> output because the PWM is off and are done to make it more obvious
> what
> happens.
>
>> > You didn't answer to the question about other PWM instances. Does
>> that
>> > mean others are not affected?
>>
>> Sorry. Yes, they are not affected - all PWM channels are
>> independent.
>
> ok.
>
>> > PS: It would be great if you could fix your mailer to not damage
>> the
>> > quoted mail. Also it doesn't seem to understand how my name is
>> encoded
>> > in the From line. I fixed up the quotes in my reply.
>>
>> I switched Geary to "rich text". Is that better?
>
> No. It looks exactly like the copy you bounced to the list. See
> https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/comment/2236355/ for how it looks.
>
> Best regards
> Uwe
>
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