cpufreq: cpu-boost: Fix deadlock in wake_up of sync threads

If wake_up() is called on the current task on a CPU, the call will wait
until the current task is switched out before it wakes it up again and
returns.

The sync notifier for a CPU always runs on that CPU.

These two together can result in a deadlock if the sync notifier on CPU A
tries to wake up the sync thread of CPU A as it goes to sleep (is the
current task). A previous commit fixed this by adding a check to the sync
notifier to not wake up the sync thread of CPU A if it's the current task.

But this is still not sufficient to prevent deadlocks.

Sync thread of CPU A could be the current task on CPU B and sync thread of
CPU B could be the current task on CPU A.  At this point, if sync notifier
of CPU A and B try to wake up the sync threads of CPU A and B, it will
result in CPU A waiting for the current task in CPU B to get switched out
and CPU B waiting for the current task in CPU A to get switched out.  This
will result in a deadlock.

Prevent this scenario from happening by pinning the sync threads of each
CPU to run on that CPU. By doing this, we guarantee that sync notifiers
will only try to wake up sync threads running on that CPU. The fix added by
"cpufreq: cpu-boost: Resolve deadlock when waking up sync thread" ensures a
deadlock doesn't happen when a sync notifier tries to wake up a sync thread
running on that CPU.

Change-Id: I864e545529722a23886dd5a82f66089155d2d193
Signed-off-by: Saravana Kannan <skannan@codeaurora.org>

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