[v5 2/2] pwm: Add Aspeed ast2600 PWM support

[Uwe Kleine-König]

Hello Billy,

On Mon, May 17, 2021 at 02:53:44AM +0000, Billy Tsai wrote:
> On 2021/5/15, 11:57 PM,Uwe Kleine-Königwrote:
> 
> 	>	> +	div_h = DIV_ROUND_DOWN_ULL(div_h,
> 	>	> +				   (FIELD_MAX(PWM_ASPEED_CTRL_CLK_DIV_L) + 1));
> 	>	> +	div_h = DIV_ROUND_DOWN_ULL(div_h, NSEC_PER_SEC);
> 
> 	> As a division is an expensive operation you can better first multiply
> 	> NSEC_PER_SEC and FIELD_MAX(PWM_ASPEED_CTRL_CLK_DIV_L) + 1 and divide by
> 	> the result.
> 
> When I multiply NSEC_PER_SEC and FIELD_MAX(PWM_ASPEED_CTRL_CLK_DIV_L) + 1 the result will overflow
> for 32-bits and the divisor type of do_div is 32-bits so I need to do div twice to avoid the issue.
> Can you give me some suggests?

Hmm, you're right. There doesn't seem to be a div64_64, I thought there
was one. Anyhow, while looking at the various divide functions I saw
that dividing by a constant shouldn't be that expensive, so I think the
sane way is to keep the two divisions and add a comment describing the
problem.

Best regards
Uwe

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