Re: [PATCH 1/2] hwmon: pwm-fan: Ensure that calculation doesn't discard big period values

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On Tue, Dec 15, 2020 at 11:29:39AM +0000, Paul Barker wrote:
> On Tue, 15 Dec 2020 at 09:23, Uwe Kleine-König
> <u.kleine-koenig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > With MAX_PWM being defined to 255 the code
> >
> >         unsigned long period;
> >         ...
> >         period = ctx->pwm->args.period;
> >         state.duty_cycle = DIV_ROUND_UP(pwm * (period - 1), MAX_PWM);
> 
> Reviewing this I noticed that in pwm_fan_resume() we use
> DIV_ROUND_UP_ULL for what looks like essentially the same calculation.

After my second patch this isn't true any more. With it applied
__set_pwm is the only place in the driver that calculates this stuff.

> Could we just switch this line to DIV_ROUND_UP_ULL instead?

Yes that would work, but actually I don't expect someone specifiying a
period big enough to justify the additional overhead of a 64 bit
division.

Best regards
Uwe

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