linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] watchdog: s3c2410_wdt: Handle rounding a little better for timeout

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Date:	Tue, 26 Nov 2013 10:48:50 -0800
From:	Guenter Roeck <linux@...ck-us.net>
To:	Doug Anderson <dianders@...omium.org>,
	Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@...ana.be>
CC:	Leela Krishna Amudala <l.krishna@...sung.com>,
	Olof Johansson <olof@...om.net>,
	Tomasz Figa <tomasz.figa@...il.com>,
	Kukjin Kim <kgene.kim@...sung.com>,
	Ben Dooks <ben-linux@...ff.org>,
	linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,
	linux-samsung-soc@...r.kernel.org, linux-watchdog@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] watchdog: s3c2410_wdt: Handle rounding a little better
 for timeout

On 11/26/2013 10:30 AM, Doug Anderson wrote:
> The existing watchdog timeout worked OK but didn't deal with
> rounding in an ideal way when dividing out all of its clocks.
>
> Specifically if you had a timeout of 32 seconds and an input clock of
> 66666666, you'd end up setting a timeout of 31.9998 seconds and
> reporting a timeout of 31 seconds.
>
> Specifically DBG printouts showed:
>    s3c2410wdt_set_heartbeat: count=16666656, timeout=32, freq=520833
>    s3c2410wdt_set_heartbeat: timeout=32, divisor=255, count=16666656 (0000ff4f)
> and the final timeout reported to the user was:
>    ((count / divisor) * divisor) / freq
>    (0xff4f * 255) / 520833 = 31 (truncated from 31.9998)
> the technically "correct" value is:
>    (0xff4f * 255) / (66666666.0 / 128) = 31.9998
>
> By using "DIV_ROUND_UP" we can be a little more correct.
>    s3c2410wdt_set_heartbeat: count=16666688, timeout=32, freq=520834
>    s3c2410wdt_set_heartbeat: timeout=32, divisor=255, count=16666688 (0000ff50)
> and the final timeout reported to the user:
>    (0xff50 * 255) / 520834 = 32
> the technically "correct" value is:
>    (0xff50 * 255) / (66666666.0 / 128) = 32.0003
>
> We'll use a DIV_ROUND_UP to solve this, generally erroring on the side
> of reporting shorter values to the user and setting the watchdog to
> slightly longer than requested:
> * Round input frequency up to assume watchdog is counting faster.
> * Round divisions by divisor up to give us extra time.
>
> Signed-off-by: Doug Anderson <dianders@...omium.org>
> ---
>   drivers/watchdog/s3c2410_wdt.c | 10 +++++-----
>   1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/watchdog/s3c2410_wdt.c b/drivers/watchdog/s3c2410_wdt.c
> index 7d8fd04..fe2322b 100644
> --- a/drivers/watchdog/s3c2410_wdt.c
> +++ b/drivers/watchdog/s3c2410_wdt.c
> @@ -188,7 +188,7 @@ static int s3c2410wdt_set_heartbeat(struct watchdog_device *wdd, unsigned timeou
>   	if (timeout < 1)
>   		return -EINVAL;
>
> -	freq /= 128;
> +	freq = DIV_ROUND_UP(freq, 128);
>   	count = timeout * freq;
>
>   	DBG("%s: count=%d, timeout=%d, freq=%lu\n",
> @@ -201,20 +201,20 @@ static int s3c2410wdt_set_heartbeat(struct watchdog_device *wdd, unsigned timeou
>
>   	if (count >= 0x10000) {
>   		for (divisor = 1; divisor <= 0x100; divisor++) {
> -			if ((count / divisor) < 0x10000)
> +			if (DIV_ROUND_UP(count, divisor) < 0x10000)
>   				break;
>   		}
>
Since you are at it,
	divisor = DIV_ROUND_UP(count + 1, 0x10000);
might be faster, simpler, and easier to understand than the loop.

Otherwise looks good to me.

Guenter

> -		if ((count / divisor) >= 0x10000) {
> +		if (divisor > 0x100) {
>   			dev_err(wdt->dev, "timeout %d too big\n", timeout);
>   			return -EINVAL;
>   		}
>   	}
>
>   	DBG("%s: timeout=%d, divisor=%d, count=%d (%08x)\n",
> -	    __func__, timeout, divisor, count, count/divisor);
> +	    __func__, timeout, divisor, count, DIV_ROUND_UP(count, divisor));
>
> -	count /= divisor;
> +	count = DIV_ROUND_UP(count, divisor);
>   	wdt->count = count;
>
>   	/* update the pre-scaler */
>

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