On Mon, 2018-04-09 at 10:33 +0200, Enric Balletbo i Serra wrote:
> Setting num-interpolated-steps in the dts will allow you to have
> linear
> interpolation between values of brightness-levels. This way a high
> resolution pwm duty cycle can be used without having to list out
> every
> possible value in the dts. This system also allows for gamma
> corrected
> values.
>
> The most simple example is interpolate between two brightness values
> a
> number of steps, this can be done setting the following in the dts:
>
> brightness-levels = <0 65535>;
> num-interpolated-steps = <1024>;
> default-brightness-level = <512>;
>
> This will create a brightness-level table with the following values:
>
> <0 63 126 189 252 315 378 441 ... 64260 64323 64386 64449 65535>
>
> Another use case can be describe a gamma corrected curve, as we have
> better sensitivity at low luminance than high luminance we probably
> want have smaller steps for low brightness levels values and bigger
> steps for high brightness levels values. This can be achieved with
> the following in the dts:
>
> brightness-levels = <0 4096 65535>;
> num-interpolated-steps = <1024>;
> default-brightness-level = <512>;
>
> This will create a brightness-levels table with the following values:
>
> <0 4 8 12 16 20 ... 4096 4156 4216 4276 ... 65535>
>
> Signed-off-by: Enric Balletbo i Serra <enric.balletbo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Acked-by: Daniel Thompson <daniel.thompson@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> drivers/video/backlight/pwm_bl.c | 83
> ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> 1 file changed, 83 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/video/backlight/pwm_bl.c
> b/drivers/video/backlight/pwm_bl.c
> index 8e3f1245f5c5..f0a108ab570a 100644
> --- a/drivers/video/backlight/pwm_bl.c
> +++ b/drivers/video/backlight/pwm_bl.c
> @@ -147,7 +147,11 @@ static int pwm_backlight_parse_dt(struct device
> *dev,
> struct platform_pwm_backlight_data
> *data)
> {
> struct device_node *node = dev->of_node;
> + unsigned int num_levels = 0;
> + unsigned int levels_count;
> + unsigned int num_steps;
> struct property *prop;
> + unsigned int *table;
> int length;
> u32 value;
> int ret;
> @@ -167,6 +171,7 @@ static int pwm_backlight_parse_dt(struct device
> *dev,
> /* read brightness levels from DT property */
> if (data->max_brightness > 0) {
> size_t size = sizeof(*data->levels) * data-
> >max_brightness;
> + unsigned int i, j, n = 0;
>
> data->levels = devm_kzalloc(dev, size, GFP_KERNEL);
> if (!data->levels)
> @@ -184,6 +189,84 @@ static int pwm_backlight_parse_dt(struct device
> *dev,
> return ret;
>
> data->dft_brightness = value;
> +
> + /*
> + * This property is optional, if is set enables
> linear
> + * interpolation between each of the values of
> brightness levels
> + * and creates a new pre-computed table.
> + */
> + of_property_read_u32(node, "num-interpolated-steps",
> + &num_steps);
> +
> + /*
> + * Make sure that there is at least two entries in
> the
> + * brightness-levels table, otherwise we can't
> interpolate
> + * between two points.
> + */
> + if (num_steps) {
> + if (data->max_brightness < 2) {
> + dev_err(dev, "can't interpolate\n");
> + return -EINVAL;
> + }
> +
> + /*
> + * Recalculate the number of brightness
> levels, now
> + * taking in consideration the number of
> interpolated
> + * steps between two levels.
> + */
> + for (i = 0; i < data->max_brightness - 1;
> i++) {
> + if ((data->levels[i + 1] - data-
> >levels[i]) /
> + num_steps)
> + num_levels += num_steps;
> + else
> + num_levels++;
> + }
> + num_levels++;
> + dev_dbg(dev, "new number of brightness
> levels: %d\n",
> + num_levels);
> +
> + /*
> + * Create a new table of brightness levels
> with all the
> + * interpolated steps.
> + */
> + size = sizeof(*table) * num_levels;
> + table = devm_kzalloc(dev, size, GFP_KERNEL);
> + if (!table)
> + return -ENOMEM;
> +
> + /* Fill the interpolated table. */
> + levels_count = 0;
> + for (i = 0; i < data->max_brightness - 1;
> i++) {
> + value = data->levels[i];
> + n = (data->levels[i + 1] - value) /
> num_steps;
> + if (n > 0) {
> + for (j = 0; j < num_steps;
> j++) {
> + table[levels_count]
> = value;
> + value += n;
> + levels_count++;
> + }
> + } else {
> + table[levels_count] = data-
> >levels[i];
> + levels_count++;
> + }
> + }
> + table[levels_count] = data->levels[i];
> +
> + /*
> + * As we use interpolation lets remove
> current
> + * brightness levels table and replace for
> the
> + * new interpolated table.
> + */
> + devm_kfree(dev, data->levels);
> + data->levels = table;
> +
> + /*
> + * Reassign max_brightness value to the new
> total number
> + * of brightness levels.
> + */
> + data->max_brightness = num_levels;
> + }
> +
> data->max_brightness--;
> }
Unfortunately, bisection has shown this to break graphics on at least
Apalis T30 [1] and Colibri T30 [2] running today's (resp. yesterday's)
-next:
[ 3.302618] ------------[ cut here ]------------
[ 3.302664] WARNING: CPU: 2 PID: 1 at
/run/media/zim/Build/Sources/linux-next.git/mm/slab_common.c:1031
kmalloc_slab+0x98/0xa0
[ 3.302701] Modules linked in:
[ 3.302732] CPU: 2 PID: 1 Comm: swapper/0 Not tainted 4.18.0-rc4-
next-20180713-dirty #50
[ 3.302763] Hardware name: NVIDIA Tegra SoC (Flattened Device Tree)
[ 3.302820] [<c011248c>] (unwind_backtrace) from [<c010ce70>]
(show_stack+0x10/0x14)
[ 3.302865] [<c010ce70>] (show_stack) from [<c0a00a74>]
(dump_stack+0x8c/0xa0)
[ 3.302905] [<c0a00a74>] (dump_stack) from [<c0123cb0>]
(__warn+0xe0/0xf8)
[ 3.302937] [<c0123cb0>] (__warn) from [<c0123de0>]
(warn_slowpath_null+0x40/0x48)
[ 3.302971] [<c0123de0>] (warn_slowpath_null) from [<c0231b74>]
(kmalloc_slab+0x98/0xa0)
[ 3.303014] [<c0231b74>] (kmalloc_slab) from [<c0258ac0>]
(__kmalloc_track_caller+0x18/0x214)
[ 3.303060] [<c0258ac0>] (__kmalloc_track_caller) from [<c0571264>]
(devm_kmalloc+0x24/0x6c)
[ 3.303108] [<c0571264>] (devm_kmalloc) from [<c0477c4c>]
(pwm_backlight_probe+0x4b4/0x9d8)
[ 3.303147] [<c0477c4c>] (pwm_backlight_probe) from [<c056f8d0>]
(platform_drv_probe+0x48/0x98)
[ 3.303185] [<c056f8d0>] (platform_drv_probe) from [<c056d9e8>]
(really_probe+0x1d0/0x2bc)
[ 3.303219] [<c056d9e8>] (really_probe) from [<c056dc38>]
(driver_probe_device+0x60/0x160)
[ 3.303252] [<c056dc38>] (driver_probe_device) from [<c056de08>]
(__driver_attach+0xd0/0xd4)
[ 3.303297] [<c056de08>] (__driver_attach) from [<c056bd34>]
(bus_for_each_dev+0x74/0xb4)
[ 3.303337] [<c056bd34>] (bus_for_each_dev) from [<c056ce94>]
(bus_add_driver+0x18c/0x210)
[ 3.303373] [<c056ce94>] (bus_add_driver) from [<c056ea3c>]
(driver_register+0x7c/0x114)
[ 3.303412] [<c056ea3c>] (driver_register) from [<c0102f24>]
(do_one_initcall+0x54/0x278)
[ 3.303463] [<c0102f24>] (do_one_initcall) from [<c0e01110>]
(kernel_init_freeable+0x2c0/0x354)
[ 3.303512] [<c0e01110>] (kernel_init_freeable) from [<c0a1715c>]
(kernel_init+0x8/0x10c)
[ 3.303551] [<c0a1715c>] (kernel_init) from [<c01010e8>]
(ret_from_fork+0x14/0x2c)
[ 3.303579] Exception stack(0xf68a7fb0 to 0xf68a7ff8)
[ 3.303602] 7fa0: 00000000
00000000 00000000 00000000
[ 3.303635] 7fc0: 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
00000000 00000000 00000000
[ 3.303666] 7fe0: 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000013
00000000
[ 3.303695] ---[ end trace 8ab8d599271271a0 ]---
[ 3.303721] pwm-backlight backlight: failed to find platform data
[ 3.303765] pwm-backlight: probe of backlight failed with error -12
Just reverting this single patch makes it work fine as expected again.
Further investigation pending but maybe some of you guys know what is
going on here.
[1] https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/next/linux-next.git
/tree/arch/arm/boot/dts/tegra30-apalis-eval.dts?h=next-20180713
[2] https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/next/linux-next.git
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