cpufreq: ACPI: Extend frequency tables to cover boost frequencies

A severe performance regression on AMD EPYC processors when using
the schedutil scaling governor was discovered by Phoronix.com and
attributed to the following commits:

  41ea667227ba ("x86, sched: Calculate frequency invariance for AMD
  systems")

  976df7e5730e ("x86, sched: Use midpoint of max_boost and max_P for
  frequency invariance on AMD EPYC")

The source of the problem is that the maximum performance level taken
for computing the arch_max_freq_ratio value used in the x86 scale-
invariance code is higher than the one corresponding to the
cpuinfo.max_freq value coming from the acpi_cpufreq driver.

This effectively causes the scale-invariant utilization to fall below
100% even if the CPU runs at cpuinfo.max_freq or slightly faster, so
the schedutil governor selects a frequency below cpuinfo.max_freq
then.  That frequency corresponds to a frequency table entry below
the maximum performance level necessary to get to the "boost" range
of CPU frequencies.

However, if the cpuinfo.max_freq value coming from acpi_cpufreq was
higher, the schedutil governor would select higher frequencies which
in turn would allow acpi_cpufreq to set more adequate performance
levels and to get to the "boost" range of CPU frequencies more often.

This issue affects any systems where acpi_cpufreq is used and the
"boost" (or "turbo") frequencies are enabled, not just AMD EPYC.
Moreover, commit db865272d9c4 ("cpufreq: Avoid configuring old
governors as default with intel_pstate") from the 5.10 development
cycle made it extremely easy to default to schedutil even if the
preferred driver is acpi_cpufreq as long as intel_pstate is built
too, because the mere presence of the latter effectively removes the
ondemand governor from the defaults.  Distro kernels are likely to
include both intel_pstate and acpi_cpufreq on x86, so their users
who cannot use intel_pstate or choose to use acpi_cpufreq may
easily be affectecd by this issue.

To address this issue, extend the frequency table constructed by
acpi_cpufreq for each CPU to cover the entire range of available
frequencies (including the "boost" ones) if CPPC is available and
indicates that "boost" (or "turbo") frequencies are enabled.  That
causes cpuinfo.max_freq to become the maximum "boost" frequency of
the given CPU (instead of the maximum frequency returned by the ACPI
_PSS object that corresponds to the "nominal" performance level).

Fixes: 41ea667227ba ("x86, sched: Calculate frequency invariance for AMD systems")
Fixes: 976df7e5730e ("x86, sched: Use midpoint of max_boost and max_P for frequency invariance on AMD EPYC")
Fixes: db865272d9c4 ("cpufreq: Avoid configuring old governors as default with intel_pstate")
Link: https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=linux511-amd-schedutil&num=1
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-pm/20210203135321.12253-2-ggherdovich@suse.cz/
Reported-by: Michael Larabel <Michael@phoronix.com>
Diagnosed-by: Giovanni Gherdovich <ggherdovich@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Tested-by: Giovanni Gherdovich <ggherdovich@suse.cz>
Reviewed-by: Giovanni Gherdovich <ggherdovich@suse.cz>
Tested-by: Michael Larabel <Michael@phoronix.com>

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