[PATCH 10/13] soc: mediatek: mtk-dvfsrc: Rework bandwidth calculations
AngeloGioacchino Del Regno
angelogioacchino.delregno at collabora.com
Mon Nov 17 04:39:08 PST 2025
Il 14/11/25 17:54, Nicolas Frattaroli ha scritto:
> The code, as it is, plays fast and loose with bandwidth units. It also
> doesn't specify its constraints in the actual maximum hardware value,
> but as some roundabout thing that then ends up multiplied into the
> actual hardware value constraint after some indirections. In part, this
> is due to the use of individual members for storing each limit, instead
> of making it possible to index them by type.
>
> Rework all of this by adding const array members indexed by the
> bandwidth type enum to the soc_data struct. This array expresses the
> actual hardware value limitations, not a factor thereof.
>
> Use the clamp function macro to clamp the values between the minimum and
> maximum constraints after all the calculations, which also means the
> code doesn't write nonsense to a hardware register when the math is
> wrong, as it'll constrain after all the calculations.
>
> Pass the type as the actual enum type as well, and not as an int. If
> there's some type checking that can be extracted from the function
> signature, then we may as well use it.
>
> Don't needlessly explicitly cast return values to the return type
> either; this is both unnecessary and makes it harder to spot type safety
> issues.
>
> Signed-off-by: Nicolas Frattaroli <nicolas.frattaroli at collabora.com>
Reviewed-by: AngeloGioacchino Del Regno <angelogioacchino.delregno at collabora.com>
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