cpufreq: intel_pstate: Free memory only when turning off
When intel_pstate switches the operation mode from "active" to "passive" or the other way around, freeing its data structures representing CPUs and allocating them again from scratch is not necessary and wasteful. Moreover, if these data structures are preserved, the cached HWP Request MSR value from there may be written to the MSR to start with to reinitialize it and help to restore the EPP value set previously (it is set to 0xFF when CPUs go offline to allow their SMT siblings to use the full range of EPP values and that also happens when the driver gets unregistered). Accordingly, modify the driver to only do a full cleanup on driver object registration errors and when its status is changed to "off" via sysfs and to write the cached HWP Request MSR value back to the MSR on CPU init if the data structure representing the given CPU is still there. Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com> Acked-by: Srinivas Pandruvada <srinivas.pandruvada@linux.intel.com>
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