[PATCH] clk: divider: Use DIV_ROUND_CLOSEST

Soren Brinkmann soren.brinkmann at xilinx.com
Tue Jan 29 20:25:44 EST 2013


Use the DIV_ROUND_CLOSEST macro to calculate divider values and minimize
rounding errors.

Cc: linux-arm-kernel at lists.infradead.org
Cc: linux-kernel at vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Soren Brinkmann <soren.brinkmann at xilinx.com>
---
Hi,

I just came across this behavior:
I'm using the clk-divider as cpuclock which can be scaled through cpufreq.
During boot I create an opp table which in this case holds the frequencies [MHz]
666, 333 and 222. To make sure those are actually valid frequencies I call
clk_round_rate().
I added a debug line in clk-divider.c:clk_divider_bestdiv() before the return
in line 163 giving me:
	prate:1333333320, rate:333333330, div:4
for adding the 333 MHz operating point.

In the running system this gives me:
zynq:/sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq # cat scaling_available_frequencies 
222222 333333 666666 
zynq:/sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq # cat scaling_cur_freq 
 666666

 So far, so good. But now, let's scale the frequency:
zynq:/sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq # echo 333333 > scaling_setspeed 
zynq:/sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq # cat scaling_cur_freq
 266666

And the corresponding debug line:
	prate:1333333320, rate:333333000, div:5

So, with DIV_ROUND_UP an actual divider of 4.00000396 becomes 5, resulting in a
huge error.

	Regards,
	Sören

 drivers/clk/clk-divider.c | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/clk/clk-divider.c b/drivers/clk/clk-divider.c
index a9204c6..32e1b6a 100644
--- a/drivers/clk/clk-divider.c
+++ b/drivers/clk/clk-divider.c
@@ -157,7 +157,7 @@ static int clk_divider_bestdiv(struct clk_hw *hw, unsigned long rate,
 
 	if (!(__clk_get_flags(hw->clk) & CLK_SET_RATE_PARENT)) {
 		parent_rate = *best_parent_rate;
-		bestdiv = DIV_ROUND_UP(parent_rate, rate);
+		bestdiv = DIV_ROUND_CLOSEST(parent_rate, rate);
 		bestdiv = bestdiv == 0 ? 1 : bestdiv;
 		bestdiv = bestdiv > maxdiv ? maxdiv : bestdiv;
 		return bestdiv;
@@ -207,7 +207,7 @@ static int clk_divider_set_rate(struct clk_hw *hw, unsigned long rate,
 	unsigned long flags = 0;
 	u32 val;
 
-	div = parent_rate / rate;
+	div = DIV_ROUND_CLOSEST(parent_rate, rate);
 	value = _get_val(divider, div);
 
 	if (value > div_mask(divider))
-- 
1.8.1.2





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