[PATCH 0/4] pwm: omap-dmtimer: fix period/duty_cycle calculation

[Thierry Reding]

On Fri, Feb 26, 2016 at 08:31:00PM -0500, David Rivshin (Allworx) wrote:
> On Fri, 29 Jan 2016 23:26:50 -0500
> "David Rivshin (Allworx)" <drivshin.allworx at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > From: David Rivshin <drivshin at allworx.com>
> > 
> > When using a short PWM period (approaching the min of 2/clk_rate),
> > pwm-omap-dmtimer does not produce accurate results. In the worst case a
> > requested period of 2/clk_rate would result in a real period of 4/clk_rate
> > instead. This is a series includes a fix for that problem, as well as
> > other related improvements, and is based on the current linux-pwm/for-next
> > tip.
> > 
> > I have tested on a Sitara AM335x platform, using a scope to verify the
> > output with a variety of periods and duty cycles. This includes a PWM
> > rate up clk_rate/2 with 50% duty cycle (e.g. generating fclk/2) with
> > both 32768Hz and 24MHz fclks. I do not have an OMAP4 board to test with,
> > although appropriate sections in the the reference manuals appear
> > substantially the same, so I believe the changes are equally correct
> > there.
> > 
> > Note that the OMAP4 TRMs do effectively state that the maximum PWM
> > rate is clk_rate/4, so at very fast PWM rates the behavior may not be
> > as reliable as I observed with Sitara. Although I suspect that it's
> > the same module and will also work, at least under some circumstances.
> > If anyone with OMAP4 hardware and a scope is so inclined, I would be
> > curious to know the results.
> > 
> > David Rivshin (4):
> >   pwm: omap-dmtimer: fix inaccurate period/duty_cycle calculation
> >   pwm: omap-dmtimer: add sanity checking for load and match values
> >   pwm: omap-dmtimer: round load and match values rather than truncate
> >   pwm: omap-dmtimer: add dev_dbg() message for effective period and duty
> >     cycle
> > 
> >  drivers/pwm/pwm-omap-dmtimer.c | 71 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----------
> >  1 file changed, 55 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-)
> > 
> 
> Hi Thierry,
> 
> Gentle ping. It does not look like you've taken this series, and I 
> wanted to make sure you're not waiting on something from me. It would 
> be nice to get at least the first patch into 4.5, if possible.

I've applied patches 1 and 3, and I'm planning on sending out a pull
request for inclusion in v4.5-rc7 later on.

Patches 2 and 4 didn't seem ready/critical, so let's finish those up
for v4.6-rc1.

Thierry
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