A small prescaler is beneficial, as this improves the resolution of the duty_cycle configuration. However if the prescaler is too small, the maximal possible period becomes considerably smaller than the requested value.
One situation where this goes wrong is the following: With a parent clock rate of 208877930 Hz and max_arr = 0xffff = 65535, a request for period = 941243 ns currently results in PSC = 1. The value for ARR is then calculated to
PSC = 941243 * 208877930 / (1000000000 * 2) - 1 = 98301
This value is bigger than 65535 however and so doesn't fit into the respective register. In this particular case the PWM was configured for a period of 313733.4806027616 ns (with ARR = 98301 & 0xffff). Even if ARR was configured to its maximal value, only period = 627495.6861167669 ns would be achievable.
Fix the calculation accordingly and adapt the comment to match the new algorithm.
With the calculation fixed the above case results in PSC = 2 and so an actual period of 941229.1667195285 ns.
Fixes: 8002fbeef1e4 ("pwm: stm32: Calculate prescaler with a division instead of a loop") Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König u.kleine-koenig@baylibre.com --- drivers/pwm/pwm-stm32.c | 17 ++++++++++++----- 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/pwm/pwm-stm32.c b/drivers/pwm/pwm-stm32.c index 3e7b2a8e34e7..2de7195e43a9 100644 --- a/drivers/pwm/pwm-stm32.c +++ b/drivers/pwm/pwm-stm32.c @@ -321,17 +321,24 @@ static int stm32_pwm_config(struct stm32_pwm *priv, unsigned int ch, * First we need to find the minimal value for prescaler such that * * period_ns * clkrate - * ------------------------------ + * ------------------------------ ≤ max_arr * NSEC_PER_SEC * (prescaler + 1) * - * isn't bigger than max_arr. + * This equation is equivalent to + * + * period_ns * clkrate + * ---------------------- ≤ prescaler + 1 + * NSEC_PER_SEC * max_arr + * + * As the left hand side might not be integer but the right hand side + * is, the division must be rounded up when doing integer math. There + * is no variant of mul_u64_u64_div_u64() that rounds up, so we're + * trading that against the +1 which results in a non-optimal prescaler + * only if the division's result is integer. */
prescaler = mul_u64_u64_div_u64(period_ns, clk_get_rate(priv->clk), (u64)NSEC_PER_SEC * priv->max_arr); - if (prescaler > 0) - prescaler -= 1; - if (prescaler > MAX_TIM_PSC) return -EINVAL;