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Commit dab8f9f0 authored by Uwe Kleine-König's avatar Uwe Kleine-König Committed by Uwe Kleine-König
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pwm: stm32: Fix calculation of prescaler

A small prescaler is beneficial, as this improves the resolution of the
duty_cycle configuration. However if the prescaler is too small, the
maximal possible period becomes considerably smaller than the requested
value.

One situation where this goes wrong is the following: With a parent
clock rate of 208877930 Hz and max_arr = 0xffff = 65535, a request for
period = 941243 ns currently results in PSC = 1. The value for ARR is
then calculated to

	ARR = 941243 * 208877930 / (1000000000 * 2) - 1 = 98301

This value is bigger than 65535 however and so doesn't fit into the
respective register field. In this particular case the PWM was
configured for a period of 313733.4806027616 ns (with ARR = 98301 &
0xffff). Even if ARR was configured to its maximal value, only period =
627495.6861167669 ns would be achievable.

Fix the calculation accordingly and adapt the comment to match the new
algorithm.

With the calculation fixed the above case results in PSC = 2 and so an
actual period of 941229.1667195285 ns.

Fixes: 8002fbee

 ("pwm: stm32: Calculate prescaler with a division instead of a loop")
Signed-off-by: default avatarUwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@baylibre.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/b4d96b79917617434a540df45f20cb5de4142f88.1718979150.git.u.kleine-koenig@baylibre.com
Signed-off-by: default avatarUwe Kleine-König <ukleinek@kernel.org>
parent c45fcf46
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