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SubjectRe: [PATCH] pwm: img: Turn final 'else if' into 'else' in img_pwm_config
On Fri, Mar 8, 2019 at 12:53 AM Uwe Kleine-König
<u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Mar 07, 2019 at 03:36:28PM -0700, Nathan Chancellor wrote:
> > When building with -Wsometimes-uninitialized, Clang warns:
> >
> > drivers/pwm/pwm-img.c:126:13: error: variable 'timebase' is used
> > uninitialized whenever 'if' condition is false
> > [-Werror,-Wsometimes-uninitialized]
> >
> > The final else if functions as an else; make that explicit so that Clang
> > understands that timebase cannot be used uninitialized.
> >
> > Link: https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/issues/400
> > Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor <natechancellor@gmail.com>
> > ---
> > drivers/pwm/pwm-img.c | 2 +-
> > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/drivers/pwm/pwm-img.c b/drivers/pwm/pwm-img.c
> > index 815f5333bb8f..1cc5fbe1e1d3 100644
> > --- a/drivers/pwm/pwm-img.c
> > +++ b/drivers/pwm/pwm-img.c
> > @@ -123,7 +123,7 @@ static int img_pwm_config(struct pwm_chip *chip, struct pwm_device *pwm,
> > } else if (mul <= max_timebase * 512) {
> > div = PWM_CTRL_CFG_SUB_DIV0_DIV1;
> > timebase = DIV_ROUND_UP(mul, 512);
> > - } else if (mul > max_timebase * 512) {
> > + } else {
> > dev_err(chip->dev,
> > "failed to configure timebase steps/divider value\n");
> > return -EINVAL;
>
> This can even be simplified further.
>
> From the probe function we have:
>
> pwm_chip->max_period_ns = NSEC_PER_SEC * 512 * max_timebase / input_clk_hz

I had trouble verifying `input_clk_hz` in the above. The divisor is
`clk_get_rate(pwm->pwm_clk)`, but is it guaranteed to always be
`input_clk_hz`? If so, where?

>
> Then in img_pwm_config there is:
>
> mul = ⎡ input_clk_hz / ⎡ NSEC_PER_SEC / period_ns⎤⎤
>
> (Not sure this term is the best we can come up with. The rounding
> strategy looks strange because the first DIV_ROUND_UP makes mul smaller
> while the second makes it bigger. This is similar to
>
> ⎡ input_clk_hz * period_ns / NSEC_PER_SEC ⎤
>
> which is probably more exact and cheaper to calculate.)
>
> If we now had
>
> mul > max_timebase * 512
>
> this results in (apart from rounding errors):
>
> input_clk_hz * period_ns / NSEC_PER_SEC > max_timebase * 512
> <=> period_ns > max_timebase * 512 * NSEC_PER_SEC / input_clk_hz
> <=> period_ns > pwm_chip->max_period_ns
>
> This however is already ruled out by the first check in
> img_pwm_config().
>
> So if the rounding would be fixed, the else is a dead branch and could
> be dropped completely.

--
Thanks,
~Nick Desaulniers

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