linux-kernel - [PATCH 3/5] backlight: pwm_bl: drop use of int

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Message-Id: <20190919140620.32407-3-linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk>
Date:   Thu, 19 Sep 2019 16:06:18 +0200
From:   Rasmus Villemoes <linux@...musvillemoes.dk>
To:     Thierry Reding <thierry.reding@...il.com>,
        Lee Jones <lee.jones@...aro.org>,
        Daniel Thompson <daniel.thompson@...aro.org>,
        Jingoo Han <jingoohan1@...il.com>,
        Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <b.zolnierkie@...sung.com>
Cc:     Rasmus Villemoes <linux@...musvillemoes.dk>,
        linux-pwm@...r.kernel.org, dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org,
        linux-fbdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH 3/5] backlight: pwm_bl: drop use of int_pow()

The scheduler uses a (currently private) fixed_power_int() in its load
average computation for computing powers of numbers 0 < x < 1
expressed as fixed-point numbers, which is also what we want here. But
that requires the scale to be a power-of-2.

We could (and a following patch will) change to use a power-of-2 scale,
but for a fixed small exponent of 3, there's no advantage in using
repeated squaring.

Signed-off-by: Rasmus Villemoes <linux@...musvillemoes.dk>
---
 drivers/video/backlight/pwm_bl.c | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/video/backlight/pwm_bl.c b/drivers/video/backlight/pwm_bl.c
index 9252d51f31b9..aee6839e024a 100644
--- a/drivers/video/backlight/pwm_bl.c
+++ b/drivers/video/backlight/pwm_bl.c
@@ -179,7 +179,8 @@ static u64 cie1931(unsigned int lightness, unsigned int scale)
 	if (lightness <= (8 * scale)) {
 		retval = DIV_ROUND_CLOSEST(lightness * 10, 9033);
 	} else {
-		retval = int_pow((lightness + (16 * scale)) / 116, 3);
+		retval = (lightness + (16 * scale)) / 116;
+		retval *= retval * retval;
 		retval = DIV_ROUND_CLOSEST_ULL(retval, (scale * scale));
 	}
 
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2.20.1