Re: pwm: atmel: Fix disabling of PWM channels

From: Guillermo Rodriguez Garcia
Date: Mon Jun 13 2016 - 06:32:08 EST


(resending to MLs for the record -- previous message bounced)

El viernes, 10 de junio de 2016, Alexandre Belloni
<alexandre.belloni@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> escribiÃ:
>
> Hi,
>
> On 13/05/2016 at 13:09:37 +0200, Guillermo Rodriguez wrote :
> > When disabling a PWM channel, the PWM clock was being stopped
> > immediately after writing to PWM_DIS. As a result, the disabling
> > of the PWM channel did not complete properly, and the PWM output
> > might be left at the wrong level.
> >
> > Fix this by waiting for the channel to be effectively disabled
> > (by checking the PWM_SR register) before disabling the clock.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Guillermo Rodriguez <guille.rodriguez@xxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> > drivers/pwm/pwm-atmel.c | 10 ++++++++++
> > 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+)
> >
> > diff --git a/drivers/pwm/pwm-atmel.c b/drivers/pwm/pwm-atmel.c
> > index 0e4bd4e..a714434 100644
> > --- a/drivers/pwm/pwm-atmel.c
> > +++ b/drivers/pwm/pwm-atmel.c
> > @@ -271,6 +271,16 @@ static void atmel_pwm_disable(struct pwm_chip *chip, struct pwm_device *pwm)
> > mutex_unlock(&atmel_pwm->isr_lock);
> > atmel_pwm_writel(atmel_pwm, PWM_DIS, 1 << pwm->hwpwm);
> >
> > + /*
> > + * Wait for the PWM channel disable operation to be effective before
> > + * stopping the clock.
> > + */
> > + timeout = jiffies + 2 * HZ;
> > + while ((atmel_pwm_readl(atmel_pwm, PWM_SR)& (1 << pwm->hwpwm)) &&
> > + time_before(jiffies, timeout)) {
> > + usleep_range(10, 100);
> > + }
> > +
>
> While this seems good, can you tell on which SoC you observed that? I'd
> like to understand whether this is only on v1 or v2 or both.

I observed it on a sama5d3, however this article from atmel's KB would
seem to suggest that it is not specific to this SoC:

http://atmel.force.com/support/pkb_mobile#/articles/en_US/FAQ/Why-PWM-Channel-Polarity-Inversion

Guillermo