[REGRESSION] [PATCH] drm/amd/display: fix initial backlight brightness calculation

Mario Limonciello superm1 at kernel.org
Sun Jul 20 12:49:50 UTC 2025



On 7/20/25 4:36 AM, Lauri Tirkkonen wrote:
> DIV_ROUND_CLOSEST(x, 100) returns either 0 or 1 if 0<x<=100, so the
> division needs to be performed after the multiplication and not the
> other way around, to properly scale the value.
> 
> Fixes: 6c56c8ec6f97 ("drm/amd/display: Fix default DC and AC levels")
> Signed-off-by: Lauri Tirkkonen <lauri at hacktheplanet.fi>
> ---
>   drivers/gpu/drm/amd/display/amdgpu_dm/amdgpu_dm.c | 4 ++--
>   1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/display/amdgpu_dm/amdgpu_dm.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/display/amdgpu_dm/amdgpu_dm.c
> index f58fa5da7fe5..8a5b5dfad1ab 100644
> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/display/amdgpu_dm/amdgpu_dm.c
> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/display/amdgpu_dm/amdgpu_dm.c
> @@ -4941,9 +4941,9 @@ amdgpu_dm_register_backlight_device(struct amdgpu_dm_connector *aconnector)
>   	caps = &dm->backlight_caps[aconnector->bl_idx];
>   	if (get_brightness_range(caps, &min, &max)) {
>   		if (power_supply_is_system_supplied() > 0)
> -			props.brightness = (max - min) * DIV_ROUND_CLOSEST(caps->ac_level, 100);
> +			props.brightness = DIV_ROUND_CLOSEST((max - min) * caps->ac_level, 100);
>   		else
> -			props.brightness = (max - min) * DIV_ROUND_CLOSEST(caps->dc_level, 100);
> +			props.brightness = DIV_ROUND_CLOSEST((max - min) * caps->dc_level, 100);
>   		/* min is zero, so max needs to be adjusted */
>   		props.max_brightness = max - min;
>   		drm_dbg(drm, "Backlight caps: min: %d, max: %d, ac %d, dc %d\n", min, max,

Thanks! The change makes sense.  Besides Greg's comments can you please 
send out of the regression thread?  IMO This should be it's own patch 
thread.


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