Re: [PATCH v16 2/2] pwm: airoha: Add support for EN7581 SoC

[Christian Marangi <ansuelsmth@gmail.com>]

On Wed, Jun 25, 2025 at 02:18:37PM +0300, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 25, 2025 at 09:40:07AM +0200, Christian Marangi wrote:
> > On Wed, Jun 25, 2025 at 09:24:33AM +0200, Uwe Kleine-König wrote:
> > > On Wed, Jun 25, 2025 at 02:00:39AM +0200, Christian Marangi wrote:
> 
> ...
> 
> > > > +	/*
> > > > +	 * Period goes at 4ns step, normalize it to check if we can
> > > > +	 * share a generator.
> > > > +	 */
> > > > +	period_ns = rounddown_u64(period_ns, AIROHA_PWM_PERIOD_TICK_NS);
> > > 
> > > I don't understand why you need that. If you clamp to
> > > AIROHA_PWM_PERIOD_MAX_NS first, you don't need the (expensive) 64-bit
> > > operation. If you compare using ticks instead of ns you don't even need
> > > to round down, but just do the division that you end up doing anyhow.
> > 
> > Correct me if I'm wrong but 
> > 
> > #define NSEC_PER_SEC	1000000000L
> > #define AIROHA_PWM_PERIOD_MAX_NS       (1 * NSEC_PER_SEC)
> > 
> > doesn't fit u32 so an u64 is needed.
> 
> I'm not sure what was the exact question, but u32 can hold up to 4*10^9,
> this is just 1*10^9.
> 

Ok feeling stupid... was treating 1000000000 as 0x1000000000 :D

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