[PATCH 1/2][RFC v2] ACPI: add "processor.broadcast_ppc" hook to broadcast _PPC

[Chen Yu]

On some problematic platforms, the _PPC notifier is
only delivered to one CPU, which might cause information
inconsistent between CPUs within the package. Thus introduce a boot up 
parameter to broadcast this _PPC notifier onto all
online CPUs.

Signed-off-by: Chen Yu <yu.c.c...@intel.com>
---
 drivers/acpi/processor_perflib.c | 16 ++++++++++++++--
 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/acpi/processor_perflib.c b/drivers/acpi/processor_perflib.c
index a303fd0e108c..737dbf5aa7f7 100644
--- a/drivers/acpi/processor_perflib.c
+++ b/drivers/acpi/processor_perflib.c
@@ -63,6 +63,10 @@ module_param(ignore_ppc, int, 0644);
 MODULE_PARM_DESC(ignore_ppc, "If the frequency of your machine gets wrongly" \
                 "limited by BIOS, this should help");
 
+static int broadcast_ppc;
+module_param(broadcast_ppc, int, 0644);
+MODULE_PARM_DESC(broadcast_ppc, "Broadcast the ppc to all online CPUs");
+
 #define PPC_REGISTERED   1
 #define PPC_IN_USE       2
 
@@ -180,8 +184,16 @@ void acpi_processor_ppc_has_changed(struct acpi_processor 
*pr, int event_flag)
                else
                        acpi_processor_ppc_ost(pr->handle, 0);
        }
-       if (ret >= 0)
-               cpufreq_update_policy(pr->id);
+       if (ret >= 0) {
+               if (broadcast_ppc) {
+                       int cpu;
+
+                       for_each_possible_cpu(cpu)
+                               cpufreq_update_policy(cpu);
+               } else {
+                       cpufreq_update_policy(pr->id);
+               }
+       }
 }
 
 int acpi_processor_get_bios_limit(int cpu, unsigned int *limit)
-- 
2.17.1