[PATCH] ARM: tegra: fix U16 divider range check

Prashant Gaikwad pgaikwad at nvidia.com
Wed Jul 25 02:42:44 EDT 2012


On Wednesday 25 July 2012 04:20 AM, Stephen Warren wrote:
> From: Stephen Warren<swarren at nvidia.com>
>
> A U16 divider can divide a clock by 1..64K. However, the range-check
> in clk_div16_get_divider() limited the range to 1..256. Fix this. NVIDIA's
> downstream kernels already have the fixed range-check.
>
> In practice this is a problem on Whistler's I2C bus, which uses a bus
> clock rate of 100KHz (rather than the more common 400KHz on Tegra boards),
> which requires a HW module clock of 8*100KHz. The parent clock is 216MHz,
> leading to a desired divider of 270. Prior to conversion to the common
> clock framework, this range error was somehow ignored/irrelevant and
> caused no problems. However, the common clock framework evidently has
> more rigorous error-checking, so this failure causes the I2C bus to fail
> to operate correctly.
>
> Signed-off-by: Stephen Warren<swarren at nvidia.com>

Thanks Stephen!!

Verified on Cardhu and Ventana with common clock framework patches.

> ---
>   arch/arm/mach-tegra/tegra2_clocks.c |    2 +-
>   1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/arm/mach-tegra/tegra2_clocks.c b/arch/arm/mach-tegra/tegra2_clocks.c
> index a703844..83ccb85 100644
> --- a/arch/arm/mach-tegra/tegra2_clocks.c
> +++ b/arch/arm/mach-tegra/tegra2_clocks.c
> @@ -223,7 +223,7 @@ static int clk_div16_get_divider(unsigned long parent_rate, unsigned long rate)
>   	if (divider_u16 - 1<  0)
>   		return 0;
>
> -	if (divider_u16 - 1>  255)
> +	if (divider_u16 - 1>  0xFFFF)
>   		return -EINVAL;
>
>   	return divider_u16 - 1;




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