From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Sun, 6 Nov 2011 12:26:18 +0100 Non constant TSC is a nightmare on bare metal already, but with virtualization it becomes a complete disaster because the workarounds are horrible latency wise. That's also a preliminary for running RT in a guest on top of a RT host. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- arch/x86/kvm/x86.c | 6 ++++++ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+) diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c b/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c index 82a9dcd8c67fe..54d2090d04e7a 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c @@ -8826,6 +8826,12 @@ int kvm_arch_init(void *opaque) goto out; } + if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT) && !boot_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_CONSTANT_TSC)) { + pr_err("RT requires X86_FEATURE_CONSTANT_TSC\n"); + r = -EOPNOTSUPP; + goto out; + } + r = -ENOMEM; x86_emulator_cache = kvm_alloc_emulator_cache(); -- 2.35.1