diff --git a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
index 31c094fb1141e7048bddf7ff498af0a66b1903ca..1cffa3f2473218a60c97f5e088116bfc35e70e43 100644
--- a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
+++ b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
@@ -1662,7 +1662,10 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted.
 			Only load intel_pstate on systems which support
 			hardware P state control (HWP) if available.
 		support_acpi_ppc
-			Enforce ACPI _PPC performance limits.
+			Enforce ACPI _PPC performance limits. If the Fixed ACPI
+			Description Table, specifies preferred power management
+			profile as "Enterprise Server" or "Performance Server",
+			then this feature is turned on by default.
 
 	intremap=	[X86-64, Intel-IOMMU]
 			on	enable Interrupt Remapping (default)
diff --git a/drivers/cpufreq/intel_pstate.c b/drivers/cpufreq/intel_pstate.c
index 31f6ffe0cf1022c2bf2ef27865aa0c1be95b4b48..a0823e84ceca147564a54897ead2e5b505388c31 100644
--- a/drivers/cpufreq/intel_pstate.c
+++ b/drivers/cpufreq/intel_pstate.c
@@ -347,6 +347,16 @@ static struct perf_limits *limits = &powersave_limits;
 #endif
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_ACPI
+
+static bool intel_pstate_get_ppc_enable_status(void)
+{
+	if (acpi_gbl_FADT.preferred_profile == PM_ENTERPRISE_SERVER ||
+	    acpi_gbl_FADT.preferred_profile == PM_PERFORMANCE_SERVER)
+		return true;
+
+	return acpi_ppc;
+}
+
 /*
  * The max target pstate ratio is a 8 bit value in both PLATFORM_INFO MSR and
  * in TURBO_RATIO_LIMIT MSR, which pstate driver stores in max_pstate and
@@ -370,7 +380,7 @@ static void intel_pstate_init_acpi_perf_limits(struct cpufreq_policy *policy)
 	int ret;
 	int i;
 
-	if (!acpi_ppc)
+	if (!intel_pstate_get_ppc_enable_status())
 		return;
 
 	cpu = all_cpu_data[policy->cpu];