[PATCH 1/2] clk: meson: mpll: fix division by zero in rate_from_params

Martin Blumenstingl martin.blumenstingl at googlemail.com
Sun Apr 2 11:43:47 PDT 2017


Hi Jerome,

On Sun, Apr 2, 2017 at 4:49 PM, Jerome Brunet <jbrunet at baylibre.com> wrote:
> On Sat, 2017-04-01 at 15:02 +0200, Martin Blumenstingl wrote:
>> According to the public datasheet all register bits in HHI_MPLL_CNTL7,
>> HHI_MPLL_CNTL8 and HHI_MPLL_CNTL9 default to zero. On all GX SoCs these
>> seem to be initialized by the bootloader to some default value.
>> However, on my Meson8 board they are not initialized, leading to a
>> division by zero in rate_from_params as the math is:
>> (parent_rate * SDM_DEN) / ((SDM_DEN * 0) + 0)
>>
>> Although the rate_from_params function was only introduced recently the
>> original bug has been there for much longer. It was only exposed
>> recently when the MPLL clocks were added to the Meson8b clock driver.
>
> The Documentation of the S905 also state that N2 minimal value is 4 and SDM
> minimal is 1 ... I should have been more careful ! Thanks for catching this
> Martin. We definitely need to fix this.
>
> Patch seems ok but I have one question. Is the rate actually zero when the
> divisor is zero ?
> I'll be away from my boards until Wednesday but I can check this when I get back
> if you can't.
is there a way how I can check this? I have a consumer device so I
can't measure the frequencies at some pin.

>>
>> Fixes: 1c50da4f27 ("clk: meson: add mpll support")
>> Signed-off-by: Martin Blumenstingl <martin.blumenstingl at googlemail.com>
>> ---
>>  drivers/clk/meson/clk-mpll.c | 7 ++++++-
>>  1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/drivers/clk/meson/clk-mpll.c b/drivers/clk/meson/clk-mpll.c
>> index 540dabe5adad..551aa2a5b291 100644
>> --- a/drivers/clk/meson/clk-mpll.c
>> +++ b/drivers/clk/meson/clk-mpll.c
>> @@ -76,7 +76,12 @@ static unsigned long rate_from_params(unsigned long
>> parent_rate,
>>                                     unsigned long sdm,
>>                                     unsigned long n2)
>>  {
>> -     return (parent_rate * SDM_DEN) / ((SDM_DEN * n2) + sdm);
>> +     unsigned long divisor = (SDM_DEN * n2) + sdm;
>> +
>> +     if (divisor == 0)
>> +             return 0;
>> +     else
>> +             return (parent_rate * SDM_DEN) / divisor;
>>  }
>>
>>  static void params_from_rate(unsigned long requested_rate,



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