powernv-cpufreq: Add helper to extract pstate from PMSR

On POWERNV platform, the fields for pstates in the Power Management
Status Register (PMSR) and the Power Management Control Register
(PMCR) are 8-bits wide. On POWER8 the pstates are negatively numbered
while on POWER9 they are positively numbered.

The device-tree exports pstates as 32-bit entries. The device-tree
implementation sign-extends the 8-bit pstate values to obtain the
corresponding 32-bit entry.

Eg: On POWER8, a pstate value 0x82 [-126] is represented in the
device-tree as 0xfffffff82 while on POWER9, the same value 0x82 [130]
is represented in the device-tree as 0x00000082.

The powernv-cpufreq driver implementation represents pstates using the
integer type. In multiple places in the driver, the code interprets
the pstates extracted from the PMSR as a signed byte and assigns it to
a integer variable to get the sign-extention.

On POWER9 platforms which have greater than 128 pstates, this results
in the driver performing incorrect sign-extention, and thereby
treating a legitimate pstate (say 130) as an invalid pstates (since it
is interpreted as -126).

This patch fixes the issue by implementing a helper function to
extract Pstates from PMSR register, and correctly sign-extend it to be
consistent with the values provided by the device-tree.

Signed-off-by: Gautham R. Shenoy <ego@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Balbir Singh <bsingharora@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>

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