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From: Sean Anderson <sean.anderson@seco.com>
To: Kenneth Sloat <ksloat@designlinxhs.com>,
	"michal.simek@xilinx.com" <michal.simek@xilinx.com>,
	"linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org" 
	<linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org>,
	"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [v2] pwm: xilinx: Fix u32 overflow issue in 32-bit width PWM mode.
Date: Thu, 15 Dec 2022 11:08:28 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <423e3575-e8d2-f100-1f9c-43c195139f6b@seco.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <SJ0P222MB0107490C5371B848EF04351CA1E19@SJ0P222MB0107.NAMP222.PROD.OUTLOOK.COM>

On 12/15/22 11:07, Kenneth Sloat wrote:
> From: Ken Sloat <ksloat@designlinxhs.com>
> 
> This timer HW supports 8, 16 and 32-bit timer widths. This
> driver currently uses a u32 to store the max possible value
> of the timer. However, statements perform addition of 2 in
> xilinx_pwm_apply() when calculating the period_cycles and
> duty_cycles values. Since priv->max is a u32, this will
> result in an overflow to 1 which will not only be incorrect
> but fail on range comparison. This results in making it
> impossible to set the PWM in this timer mode.
> 
> There are two obvious solutions to the current problem:
> 1. Cast each instance where overflow occurs to u64.
> 2. Change priv->max from a u32 to a u64.
> 
> Solution #1 requires more code modifications, and leaves
> opportunity to introduce similar overflows if other math
> statements are added in the future. These may also go
> undetected if running in non 32-bit timer modes.
> 
> Solution #2 is the much smaller and cleaner approach and
> thus the chosen method in this patch.
> 
> This was tested on a Zynq UltraScale+ with multiple
> instances of the PWM IP.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Ken Sloat <ksloat@designlinxhs.com>
> ---
> Changes in v2:
> 	-Update commit comments to explain specifically where this
>  	problem occurs as well as compare solutions.
> 
> ---
>  include/clocksource/timer-xilinx.h | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/include/clocksource/timer-xilinx.h b/include/clocksource/timer-xilinx.h
> index c0f56fe6d22a..d116f18de899 100644
> --- a/include/clocksource/timer-xilinx.h
> +++ b/include/clocksource/timer-xilinx.h
> @@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ struct regmap;
>  struct xilinx_timer_priv {
>  	struct regmap *map;
>  	struct clk *clk;
> -	u32 max;
> +	u64 max;
>  };
>  
>  /**

Reviewed-by: Sean Anderson <sean.anderson@seco.com>

  reply	other threads:[~2022-12-15 16:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-12-15 16:07 [v2] pwm: xilinx: Fix u32 overflow issue in 32-bit width PWM mode Kenneth Sloat
2022-12-15 16:08 ` Sean Anderson [this message]
2022-12-15 16:13 ` Michal Simek
2024-05-09 12:31 ` Michal Simek

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