linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] clk: divider: Fix table round up function

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Date:	Wed, 21 May 2014 14:52:16 +0200
From:	Maxime Coquelin <maxime.coquelin@...com>
To:	Mike Turquette <mturquette@...aro.org>
Cc:	Fabio Estevam <festevam@...il.com>,
	Shawn Guo <shawn.guo@...escale.com>,
	"linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org" 
	<linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] clk: divider: Fix table round up function

Hi Mike,

On 05/15/2014 03:28 PM, Fabio Estevam wrote:
> Hi Mike,
>
> On Wed, May 7, 2014 at 1:48 PM, Maxime COQUELIN <maxime.coquelin@...com> wrote:
>> Commit 1d9fe6b97 ("clk: divider: Fix best div calculation for power-of-two and
>> table dividers") introduces a regression in its _table_round_up function.
>>
>> When the divider passed to this function is greater than the max divider
>> available in the table, this function returns table's max divider.
>> Problem is that it causes an infinite loop in clk_divider_bestdiv() because
>> _next_div() will never return a value greater than maxdiv.
>>
>> Instead of returning table's max divider, this patch returns INT_MAX.
>>
>> Reported-by: Fabio Estevam <festevam@...il.com>
>> Reported-by: Shawn Guo <shawn.guo@...escale.com>
>> Tested-by: Fabio Estevam <festevam@...il.com>
>> Cc: Mike Turquette <mike.turquette@...aro.org>
>> Signed-off-by: Maxime Coquelin <maxime.coquelin@...com>
>
> Any comments on this one? It does fix a regression.
>

This patch is important as it fixes a regression, could you review it 
please?

Thanks,
Maxime
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