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    cpufreq: Support per-policy performance boost · 218a06a7
    Jie Zhan authored
    The boost control currently applies to the whole system.  However, users
    may prefer to boost a subset of cores in order to provide prioritized
    performance to workloads running on the boosted cores.
    
    Enable per-policy boost by adding a 'boost' sysfs interface under each
    policy path.  This can be found at:
    
    	/sys/devices/system/cpu/cpufreq/policy<*>/boost
    
    Same to the global boost switch, writing 1/0 to the per-policy 'boost'
    enables/disables boost on a cpufreq policy respectively.
    
    The user view of global and per-policy boost controls should be:
    
    1. Enabling global boost initially enables boost on all policies, and
    per-policy boost can then be enabled or disabled individually, given that
    the platform does support so.
    
    2. Disabling global boost makes the per-policy boost interface illegal.
    Signed-off-by: default avatarJie Zhan <zhanjie9@hisilicon.com>
    Reviewed-by: default avatarWei Xu <xuwei5@hisilicon.com>
    Acked-by: default avatarViresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarRafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
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