On Tue, Oct 03, 2017 at 03:24:33PM +0200, Alexandre Belloni wrote:

Hi Russell,

On 29/09/2017 at 11:23:31 +0100, Russell King wrote:

quoted

+/*
+ * The information given in the Armada 388 functional spec is complex.
+ * They give two different formulas for calculating the offset value,
+ * but when considering "Offset" as an 8-bit signed integer, they both
+ * reduce down to (we shall rename "Offset" as "val" here):
+ *
+ *   val = (f_ideal / f_measured - 1) / resolution   where f_ideal = 32768
+ *
+ * Converting to time, f = 1/t:
+ *   val = (t_measured / t_ideal - 1) / resolution   where t_ideal = 1/32768
+ *
+ *   =>  t_measured / t_ideal = val * resolution + 1
+ *
+ * "offset" in the RTC interface is defined as:
+ *   t = t0 * (1 + offset * 1e-9)
+ * where t is the desired period, t0 is the measured period with a zero
+ * offset, which is t_measured above. With t0 = t_measured and t = t_ideal,
+ *   offset = (t_ideal / t_measured - 1) / 1e-9
+ *
+ *   => t_ideal / t_measured = offset * 1e-9 + 1
+ *
+ * so:
+ *
+ *   offset * 1e-9 + 1 = 1 / (val * resolution + 1)
+ *
+ * We want "resolution" to be an integer, so resolution = R * 1e-9, giving
+ *   offset = 1e18 / (val * R + 1e9) - 1e9
+ *   val = (1e18 / (offset + 1e9) - 1e9) / R
+ * with a common transformation:
+ *   f(x) = 1e18 / (x + 1e9) - 1e9
+ *   offset = f(val * R)
+ *   val = f(offset) / R
+ *
+ * Armada 38x supports two modes, fine mode (954ppb) and coarse mode (3815ppb).
+ */
+static long armada38x_ppb_convert(long ppb)
+{
+	long div = ppb + 1000000000L;
+
+	return div_s64(1000000000000000000LL + div / 2, div) - 1000000000L;

The previous comment is perfect but it was not completely obvious to me
why you are adding div / 2. Maybe you can add a small comment.

It's the standard way to turn a regular integer division into one which
rounds-to-closest - I consider it to be one of the basics which every
programmer should know, and therefore should be obvious.

Integer division in the form of:

	r = (a + b / 2) / b

should be part of the programmers basic knowledge set.

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