[PATCH] time: re-add verify_pmtmr_rate

This patch re-adds the verify_pmtmr_rate functionality from 2.6.17 that
I dropped 2.6.18.

This resolves problems seen on older K6 ASUS boards where the ACPI PM
timer runs too fast.

See:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=211902
http://bugme.osdl.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2375

Thanks to Ian Campbell for re-reporting this and testing the fix!

Signed-off-by: John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: Ian Campbell <ijc@hellion.org.uk>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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