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Max Kellermann 8246b478a2 pwm-sun4i: Calculate the delay without rounding down to jiffies
This fixes a problem that was supposed to be addressed by commit
6eefb79d6f ("pwm: sun4i: Remove erroneous else branch") - backlight
could not be switched off on some Allwinner A20.  The commit was
correct, but was not a reliable fix for the problem, which was timing
related.

The real problem for the backlight switching problem was that sleeping
for a full period did not work, because delay_us is always zero.

It is zero because the period (plus 1 microsecond) is rounded down to
the next "jiffies", but the period is less than one jiffy.

On my Cubieboard 2, the period is 5ms, and 1 jiffy (at the default
HZ=100) is 10ms, so nsecs_to_jiffies(10ms+1us)=0.

The roundtrip from nanoseconds to jiffies and back to microseconds is
an unnecessary loss of precision; always rounding down (via
nsecs_to_jiffies()) then causes the breakage.

This patch eliminates this roundtrip, and directly converts from
nanoseconds to microseconds (for usleep_range()), using
DIV_ROUND_UP_ULL() to force rounding up.  This way, the sleep time is
never zero, and after the sleep, we are guaranteed to be in a
different period, and the device is ready for another control command
for sure.

Signed-off-by: Max Kellermann <max.kellermann@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Thierry Reding <thierry.reding@gmail.com>
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