[v4,4/4] clk: fractional-divider: Document the arithmetics used behind the code

Commit Message

Andy Shevchenko Aug. 12, 2021, 5 p.m. UTC

It appears that some code lines raise the question why they are needed
and how they are participated in the calculus of the resulting values.

Document this in a form of the top comment in the module file.

Reported-by: Liu Ying <[e-mail]>
Signed-off-by: Andy Shevchenko <[e-mail]>
---
v4: rebased on top of latest CLK codebase

 drivers/clk/clk-fractional-divider.c | 35 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 34 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

Comments

Stephen Boyd Aug. 12, 2021, 7:56 p.m. UTC | #1

Quoting Andy Shevchenko (2021-08-12 10:00:25)
> It appears that some code lines raise the question why they are needed
> and how they are participated in the calculus of the resulting values.
> 
> Document this in a form of the top comment in the module file.
> 
> Reported-by: Liu Ying <[e-mail]>
> Signed-off-by: Andy Shevchenko <[e-mail]>
> ---

Applied to clk-next

Patch

diff --git a/drivers/clk/clk-fractional-divider.c b/drivers/clk/clk-fractional-divider.c
index 6a3ed82fdae9..b4f365d97bd0 100644
--- a/drivers/clk/clk-fractional-divider.c
+++ b/drivers/clk/clk-fractional-divider.c
@@ -3,8 +3,39 @@ 
  * Copyright (C) 2014 Intel Corporation
  *
  * Adjustable fractional divider clock implementation.
- * Output rate = (m / n) * parent_rate.
  * Uses rational best approximation algorithm.
+ *
+ * Output is calculated as
+ *
+ *	rate = (m / n) * parent_rate				(1)
+ *
+ * This is useful when on die we have a prescaler block which asks for
+ * m (numerator) and n (denominator) values to be provided to satisfy
+ * the (1) as much as possible.
+ *
+ * Since m and n have the limitation by a range, e.g.
+ *
+ *	n >= 1, n < N_width, where N_width = 2^nwidth		(2)
+ *
+ * for some cases the output may be saturated. Hence, from (1) and (2),
+ * assuming the worst case when m = 1, the inequality
+ *
+ *	floor(log2(parent_rate / rate)) <= nwidth		(3)
+ *
+ * may be derived. Thus, in cases when
+ *
+ *	(parent_rate / rate) >> N_width				(4)
+ *
+ * we might scale up the rate by 2^scale (see the description of
+ * CLK_FRAC_DIVIDER_POWER_OF_TWO_PS for additional information), where
+ *
+ *	scale = floor(log2(parent_rate / rate)) - nwidth	(5)
+ *
+ * and assume that the IP, that needs m and n, has also its own
+ * prescaler, which is capable to divide by 2^scale. In this way
+ * we get the denominator to satisfy the desired range (2) and
+ * at the same time much much better result of m and n than simple
+ * saturated values.
  */
 
 #include <linux/clk-provider.h>
@@ -81,6 +112,8 @@  void clk_fractional_divider_general_approximation(struct clk_hw *hw,
 	 * Get rate closer to *parent_rate to guarantee there is no overflow
 	 * for m and n. In the result it will be the nearest rate left shifted
 	 * by (scale - fd->nwidth) bits.
+	 *
+	 * For the detailed explanation see the top comment in this file.
 	 */
 	if (fd->flags & CLK_FRAC_DIVIDER_POWER_OF_TWO_PS) {
 		unsigned long scale = fls_long(*parent_rate / rate - 1);