Whenever num-interpolated-steps was larger than the distance between 2 consecutive brightness levels the table would get really discontinuous. The slope of the interpolation would stick with integers only and if it was 0 the whole line segment would get skipped.
Example settings: brightness-levels = <0 1 2 4 8 16 32 64 128 256>; num-interpolated-steps = <16>;
The distances between 1 2 4 and 8 would be 1, and only starting with 16 it would start to interpolate properly.
Let's change it so there's always interpolation happening, even if there's no enough points available (read: values in the table would appear more than once). This should match the expected behavior much more closely.
Signed-off-by: Alexandru Stan amstan@chromium.org ---
drivers/video/backlight/pwm_bl.c | 70 ++++++++++++++------------------ 1 file changed, 31 insertions(+), 39 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/video/backlight/pwm_bl.c b/drivers/video/backlight/pwm_bl.c index dfc760830eb9..3e77f6b73fd9 100644 --- a/drivers/video/backlight/pwm_bl.c +++ b/drivers/video/backlight/pwm_bl.c @@ -230,8 +230,7 @@ static int pwm_backlight_parse_dt(struct device *dev, struct platform_pwm_backlight_data *data) { struct device_node *node = dev->of_node; - unsigned int num_levels = 0; - unsigned int levels_count; + unsigned int num_levels; unsigned int num_steps = 0; struct property *prop; unsigned int *table; @@ -260,12 +259,11 @@ static int pwm_backlight_parse_dt(struct device *dev, if (!prop) return 0;
- data->max_brightness = length / sizeof(u32); + num_levels = length / sizeof(u32);
/* read brightness levels from DT property */ - if (data->max_brightness > 0) { - size_t size = sizeof(*data->levels) * data->max_brightness; - unsigned int i, j, n = 0; + if (num_levels > 0) { + size_t size = sizeof(*data->levels) * num_levels;
data->levels = devm_kzalloc(dev, size, GFP_KERNEL); if (!data->levels) @@ -273,7 +271,7 @@ static int pwm_backlight_parse_dt(struct device *dev,
ret = of_property_read_u32_array(node, "brightness-levels", data->levels, - data->max_brightness); + num_levels); if (ret < 0) return ret;
@@ -298,7 +296,13 @@ static int pwm_backlight_parse_dt(struct device *dev, * between two points. */ if (num_steps) { - if (data->max_brightness < 2) { + unsigned int num_input_levels = num_levels; + unsigned int i; + u32 x1, x2, x, dx; + u32 y1, y2; + s64 dy; + + if (num_input_levels < 2) { dev_err(dev, "can't interpolate\n"); return -EINVAL; } @@ -308,14 +312,7 @@ static int pwm_backlight_parse_dt(struct device *dev, * taking in consideration the number of interpolated * steps between two levels. */ - for (i = 0; i < data->max_brightness - 1; i++) { - if ((data->levels[i + 1] - data->levels[i]) / - num_steps) - num_levels += num_steps; - else - num_levels++; - } - num_levels++; + num_levels = (num_input_levels - 1) * num_steps + 1; dev_dbg(dev, "new number of brightness levels: %d\n", num_levels);
@@ -327,24 +324,25 @@ static int pwm_backlight_parse_dt(struct device *dev, table = devm_kzalloc(dev, size, GFP_KERNEL); if (!table) return -ENOMEM; - - /* Fill the interpolated table. */ - levels_count = 0; - for (i = 0; i < data->max_brightness - 1; i++) { - value = data->levels[i]; - n = (data->levels[i + 1] - value) / num_steps; - if (n > 0) { - for (j = 0; j < num_steps; j++) { - table[levels_count] = value; - value += n; - levels_count++; - } - } else { - table[levels_count] = data->levels[i]; - levels_count++; + /* + * Fill the interpolated table[x] = y + * by draw lines between each (x1, y1) to (x2, y2). + */ + dx = num_steps; + for (i = 0; i < num_input_levels - 1; i++) { + x1 = i * dx; + x2 = x1 + dx; + y1 = data->levels[i]; + y2 = data->levels[i + 1]; + dy = (s64)y2 - y1; + + for (x = x1; x < x2; x++) { + table[x] = y1 + + div_s64(dy * ((s64)x - x1), dx); } } - table[levels_count] = data->levels[i]; + /* Fill in the last point, since no line starts here. */ + table[x2] = y2;
/* * As we use interpolation lets remove current @@ -353,15 +351,9 @@ static int pwm_backlight_parse_dt(struct device *dev, */ devm_kfree(dev, data->levels); data->levels = table; - - /* - * Reassign max_brightness value to the new total number - * of brightness levels. - */ - data->max_brightness = num_levels; }
- data->max_brightness--; + data->max_brightness = num_levels - 1; }
return 0;