sched: Update max cpu capacity in case of max frequency constraints

Wakeup balancing uses cpu capacity awareness and needs to know the
system-wide maximum cpu capacity.

Patch "sched: Store system-wide maximum cpu capacity in root domain"
finds the system-wide maximum cpu capacity during scheduler domain
hierarchy setup. This is sufficient as long as maximum frequency
invariance is not enabled.

If it is enabled, the system-wide maximum cpu capacity can change
between scheduler domain hierarchy setups due to frequency capping.

The cpu capacity is changed in update_cpu_capacity() which is called in
load balance on the lowest scheduler domain hierarchy level. To be able
to know if a change in cpu capacity for a certain cpu also has an effect
on the system-wide maximum cpu capacity it is normally necessary to
iterate over all cpus. This would be way too costly. That's why this
patch follows a different approach.

The unsigned long max_cpu_capacity value in struct root_domain is
replaced with a struct max_cpu_capacity, containing value (the
max_cpu_capacity) and cpu (the cpu index of the cpu providing the
maximum cpu_capacity).

Changes to the system-wide maximum cpu capacity and the cpu index are
made if:

 1 System-wide maximum cpu capacity < cpu capacity
 2 System-wide maximum cpu capacity > cpu capacity and cpu index == cpu

There are no changes to the system-wide maximum cpu capacity in all
other cases.

Atomic read and write access to the pair (max_cpu_capacity.val,
max_cpu_capacity.cpu) is enforced by max_cpu_capacity.lock.

The access to max_cpu_capacity.val in task_fits_max() is still performed
without taking the max_cpu_capacity.lock.

The code to set max cpu capacity in build_sched_domains() has been
removed because the whole functionality is now provided by
update_cpu_capacity() instead.

This approach can introduce errors temporarily, e.g. in case the cpu
currently providing the max cpu capacity has its cpu capacity lowered
due to frequency capping and calls update_cpu_capacity() before any cpu
which might provide the max cpu now.

There is also an outstanding question:

Should the cpu capacity of a cpu going idle be set to a very small
value?

Signed-off-by: Dietmar Eggemann <dietmar.eggemann@arm.com>

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