pwm: stm32: Improve precision of calculation in .apply()

While mathematically it's ok to calculate the number of cyles for the
duty cycle as:

	duty_cycles = period_cycles * duty_ns / period_ns

this doesn't always give the right result when doing integer math. This
is best demonstrated using an example: With the input clock running at
208877930 Hz a request for duty_cycle = 383 ns and period = 49996 ns
results in

	period_cycles = clkrate * period_ns / NSEC_PER_SEC = 10443.06098828

Now calculating duty_cycles with the above formula gives:

	duty_cycles = 10443.06098828 * 383 / 49996 = 80.00024719

However with period_cycle truncated to an integer results in:

	duty_cycles = 10443 * 383 / 49996 = 79.99977998239859

So while a value of (a little more than) 80 would be the right result,
only 79 is used here. The problem here is that 14443 is a rounded result
that should better not be used to do further math. So to fix that use
the exact formular similar to how period_cycles is calculated.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/7628ecd8a7538aa5a7397f0fc4199a077168e8a6.1710711976.git.u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de>

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