Re: [PATCH v6 2/7] pwm: pca9685: Support hardware readout

[Clemens Gruber]

On Mon, Mar 29, 2021 at 06:54:29PM +0200, Uwe Kleine-König wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 29, 2021 at 02:57:02PM +0200, Clemens Gruber wrote:
> > Implements .get_state to read-out the current hardware state.
> > 
> > The hardware readout may return slightly different values than those
> > that were set in apply due to the limited range of possible prescale and
> > counter register values.
> > 
> > Also note that although the datasheet mentions 200 Hz as default
> > frequency when using the internal 25 MHz oscillator, the calculated
> > period from the default prescaler register setting of 30 is 5079040ns.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Clemens Gruber <clemens.gruber@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> >  drivers/pwm/pwm-pca9685.c | 41 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> >  1 file changed, 41 insertions(+)
> > 
> > diff --git a/drivers/pwm/pwm-pca9685.c b/drivers/pwm/pwm-pca9685.c
> > index 0ed1013737e3..fb026a25fb61 100644
> > --- a/drivers/pwm/pwm-pca9685.c
> > +++ b/drivers/pwm/pwm-pca9685.c
> > @@ -333,6 +333,46 @@ static int pca9685_pwm_apply(struct pwm_chip *chip, struct pwm_device *pwm,
> >  	return 0;
> >  }
> >  
> > +static void pca9685_pwm_get_state(struct pwm_chip *chip, struct pwm_device *pwm,
> > +				  struct pwm_state *state)
> > +{
> > +	struct pca9685 *pca = to_pca(chip);
> > +	unsigned long long duty;
> > +	unsigned int val = 0;
> > +
> > +	/* Calculate (chip-wide) period from prescale value */
> > +	regmap_read(pca->regmap, PCA9685_PRESCALE, &val);
> > +	state->period = (PCA9685_COUNTER_RANGE * 1000 / PCA9685_OSC_CLOCK_MHZ) *
> > +			(val + 1);
> 
> As we have PCA9685_OSC_CLOCK_MHZ = 25 this is an integer calculation
> without loss of precision. It might be worth to point that out in a
> comment. (Otherwise doing the division at the end might be more
> sensible.)

What comment do you have in mind?
/* 1 integer multiplication (without loss of precision) at runtime */ ?

> 
> > +	/* The (per-channel) polarity is fixed */
> > +	state->polarity = PWM_POLARITY_NORMAL;
> > +
> > +	if (pwm->hwpwm >= PCA9685_MAXCHAN) {
> > +		/*
> > +		 * The "all LEDs" channel does not support HW readout
> > +		 * Return 0 and disabled for backwards compatibility
> > +		 */
> > +		state->duty_cycle = 0;
> > +		state->enabled = false;
> > +		return;
> > +	}
> > +
> > +	duty = pca9685_pwm_get_duty(pca, pwm->hwpwm);
> > +
> > +	state->enabled = !!duty;
> > +	if (!state->enabled) {
> > +		state->duty_cycle = 0;
> > +		return;
> > +	} else if (duty == PCA9685_COUNTER_RANGE) {
> > +		state->duty_cycle = state->period;
> > +		return;
> > +	}
> > +
> > +	duty *= state->period;
> > +	state->duty_cycle = duty / PCA9685_COUNTER_RANGE;
> 
> .apply uses ROUND_CLOSEST to calculate duty from state->duty_cycle,
> still using / here (instead of ROUND_CLOSEST), but again as
> PCA9685_OSC_CLOCK_MHZ is 25 this calculation doesn't suffer from
> rounding errors. So if you feed the state returned here into .apply
> again, there is (as I want it) no change.
> 
> The only annoyance is that if PCA9685_PRESCALE holds a value smaller
> than 3, .apply() will fail. Not sure there is any saner way to handle
> this.

According to the datasheet, "The hardware forces a minimum value that
can be loaded into the PRE_SCALE register at '3'", so there should never
be anything below 3 in that register.

Thanks for your review!

Clemens