Hi Thomas and Peter, hi everyone,

Asynchrounous events (e.g.SMIs) which occur during the APIC timer 
calibration can cause timer miscalibrations, sometimes by large amounts.

This patch fixes this by two separate measures:
   a) make sure that no significant interruption occurs between APIC and
      TSC reads
   b) make sure that the measurement loop isn't significantly longer
      than originally intended.

I am sorry, due to a misconfiguration of our SMTP server I need to send 
the patch as attachment.

Martin

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