Russell King reports:
| On the ARM dev boards, we have a 32-bit counter running at 24MHz. Calling
| clocks_calc_mult_shift(&mult, &shift, 24MHz, NSEC_PER_SEC, 60) gives
| us a multiplier of 2796202666 and a shift of 26.
|
| Over a large counter delta, this produces an error - lets take a count
| from 362976315 to 4280663372:
|
| (4280663372-362976315) * 2796202666 / 2^26 - (4280663372-362976315) * (1000/24)
| => -38.91872422891230269990
|
| Can we do better?
|
| (4280663372-362976315) * 2796202667 / 2^26 - (4280663372-362976315) * (1000/24)
| 19.45936211449532822051
|
| which is about twice as good as the 2796202666 multiplier.
|
| Looking at the equivalent divisions obtained, 2796202666 / 2^26 gives
| 41.66666665673255920410ns per tick, whereas 2796202667 / 2^26 gives
| 41.66666667163372039794ns. The actual value wanted is 1000/24 =
| 41.66666666666666666666ns.
Fix this by ensuring we round to nearest when calculating the
multiplier.
Signed-off-by: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
Tested-by: Santosh Shilimkar <santosh.shilimkar@ti.com>
Tested-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Tested-by: Mikael Pettersson <mikpe@it.uu.se>
Tested-by: Eric Miao <eric.y.miao@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Olof Johansson <olof@lixom.net>
Tested-by: Jamie Iles <jamie@jamieiles.com>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
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