powerpc: Default arch idle could cede processor on pseries

commit 363edbe2614aa90df706c0f19ccfa2a6c06af0be upstream.

When adding cpuidle support to pSeries, we introduced two
regressions:

  - The new cpuidle backend driver only works under hypervisors
    supporting the "SLPLAR" option, which isn't the case of the
    old POWER4 hypervisor and the HV "light" used on js2x blades

  - The cpuidle driver registers fairly late, meaning that for
    a significant portion of the boot process, we end up having
    all threads spinning. This slows down the boot process and
    increases the overall resource usage if the hypervisor has
    shared processors.

This fixes both by implementing a "default" idle that will cede
to the hypervisor when possible, in a very simple way without
all the bells and whisles of cpuidle.

Reported-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Vaidyanathan Srinivasan <svaidy@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Deepthi Dharwar <deepthi@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

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