cpufreq: intel_pstate: Use HWP if enabled by platform firmware
It turns out that there are systems where HWP is enabled during initialization by the platform firmware (BIOS), but HWP EPP support is not advertised. After commit 7aa10312 ("cpufreq: intel_pstate: Avoid enabling HWP if EPP is not supported") intel_pstate refuses to use HWP on those systems, but the fallback PERF_CTL interface does not work on them either because of enabled HWP, and once enabled, HWP cannot be disabled. Consequently, the users of those systems cannot control CPU performance scaling. Address this issue by making intel_pstate use HWP unconditionally if it is enabled already when the driver starts. Fixes: 7aa10312 ("cpufreq: intel_pstate: Avoid enabling HWP if EPP is not supported") Reported-by: Srinivas Pandruvada <srinivas.pandruvada@linux.intel.com> Tested-by: Srinivas Pandruvada <srinivas.pandruvada@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com> Cc: 5.9+ <stable@vger.kernel.org> # 5.9+
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