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drm/i915: restore backlight precision when converting from opregion

Message ID 535DC8C1.5090407@intel.com (mailing list archive)
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Aaron Lu April 28, 2014, 3:19 a.m. UTC
When we set backlight on behalf of ACPI opregion, we will convert the
backlight value in the 0-255 range defined in opregion to the actual
hardware level. Commit 22505b82a2 (drm/i915: avoid brightness overflow
when doing scale) is meant to fix the overflow problem when doing the
conversion, but it also caused a problem that the converted hardware
level doesn't quite represent the intended value: say user wants maximum
backlight level(255 in opregion's range), then we will calculate the
actual hardware level to be: level = freq / max * level, where freq is
the hardware's max backlight level(937 on an user's box), and max and
level are all 255. The converted value should be 937 but the above
calculation will yield 765.

To fix this issue, just use 64 bits to do the calculation to keep the
precision and avoid overflow at the same time.

Buglink: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=72491
Reported-and-tested-by: Nico Schottelius <nico-bugzilla.kernel.org@schottelius.org>
Signed-off-by: Aaron Lu <aaron.lu@intel.com>
---
 drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_panel.c | 5 +----
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 4 deletions(-)

Comments

Daniel Vetter April 28, 2014, 1:41 p.m. UTC | #1
On Mon, Apr 28, 2014 at 11:19:29AM +0800, Aaron Lu wrote:
> When we set backlight on behalf of ACPI opregion, we will convert the
> backlight value in the 0-255 range defined in opregion to the actual
> hardware level. Commit 22505b82a2 (drm/i915: avoid brightness overflow
> when doing scale) is meant to fix the overflow problem when doing the
> conversion, but it also caused a problem that the converted hardware
> level doesn't quite represent the intended value: say user wants maximum
> backlight level(255 in opregion's range), then we will calculate the
> actual hardware level to be: level = freq / max * level, where freq is
> the hardware's max backlight level(937 on an user's box), and max and
> level are all 255. The converted value should be 937 but the above
> calculation will yield 765.
> 
> To fix this issue, just use 64 bits to do the calculation to keep the
> precision and avoid overflow at the same time.
> 
> Buglink: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=72491
> Reported-and-tested-by: Nico Schottelius <nico-bugzilla.kernel.org@schottelius.org>
> Signed-off-by: Aaron Lu <aaron.lu@intel.com>
> ---
>  drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_panel.c | 5 +----
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 4 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_panel.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_panel.c
> index a953b081ee38..bdd2f24b7a6b 100644
> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_panel.c
> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_panel.c
> @@ -502,10 +502,7 @@ void intel_panel_set_backlight(struct intel_connector *connector, u32 level,
>  
>  	/* scale to hardware max, but be careful to not overflow */
>  	freq = panel->backlight.max;
> -	if (freq < max)
> -		level = level * freq / max;
> -	else
> -		level = freq / max * level;
> +	level = (u64)level * freq / max;

64bit divisions won't compile on 32bit. You need one of the DO_DIV macros,
or whatever they're called again. I pain, I know ;-)
-Daniel

>  
>  	panel->backlight.level = level;
>  	if (panel->backlight.device)
> -- 
> 1.9.0
>
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diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_panel.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_panel.c
index a953b081ee38..bdd2f24b7a6b 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_panel.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_panel.c
@@ -502,10 +502,7 @@  void intel_panel_set_backlight(struct intel_connector *connector, u32 level,
 
 	/* scale to hardware max, but be careful to not overflow */
 	freq = panel->backlight.max;
-	if (freq < max)
-		level = level * freq / max;
-	else
-		level = freq / max * level;
+	level = (u64)level * freq / max;
 
 	panel->backlight.level = level;
 	if (panel->backlight.device)