Регрессия в kernel

обнадежили в ядре :(

* HPETs are a complete disaster. The compare register is
* based on a equal comparison and neither provides a less
* than or equal functionality (which would require to take
* the wraparound into account) nor a simple count down event
* mode. Further the write to the comparator register is
* delayed internally up to two HPET clock cycles in certain
* chipsets (ATI, ICH9,10). Some newer AMD chipsets have even
* longer delays. We worked around that by reading back the
* compare register, but that required another workaround for
* ICH9,10 chips where the first readout after write can
* return the old stale value. We already had a minimum
* programming delta of 5us enforced, but a NMI or SMI hitting
* between the counter readout and the comparator write can
* move us behind that point easily. Now instead of reading
* the compare register back several times, we make the ETIME
* decision based on the following: Return ETIME if the
* counter value after the write is less than HPET_MIN_CYCLES
* away from the event or if the counter is already ahead of
* the event. The minimum programming delta for the generic
* clockevents code is set to 1.5 * HPET_MIN_CYCLES.