sched: Basic task placement support for HMP systems

HMP systems have cpus with different power and performance
characteristics. Some cpus could offer better power at cost of lower
performance while other cpus could offer better performance at cost of
higher power. As a result, bandwidth consumed by a task to do some
"fixed" amount of work could vary across cpus.

Optimal task placement on HMP would involve placing a task on a cpu
where it can meet its performance goals at lowest power cost. Since
kernel has little to no awareness of performance goals of
applications, we guestimate whether task is meeting its performance
goals or not by looking at its cpu bandwidth consumption. High
bandwidth consumption could imply that task's performance can improve
by running on cpus with better capacity/performance-characterisitcs.

This patch makes the basic changes to support HMP. It provides a
configurable threshold and any task consuming bandwidth in excess of
threshold will be placed on a cpu with better capacity.

Change-Id: I3fd98edd430f73342fbef06411e8b2d1cf2f56fa
Signed-off-by: Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@codeaurora.org>
[rameezmustafa@codeaurora.org]: Port to msm-3.18]
Signed-off-by: Syed Rameez Mustafa <rameezmustafa@codeaurora.org>
[joonwoop@codeaurora.org: fixed conflict about members of p->se which
 are not available anymore.]
Signed-off-by: Joonwoo Park <joonwoop@codeaurora.org>

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