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x86: kvm Require const tsc for RT
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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@linutronix.de>
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Thomas Gleixner authored and Sebastian Andrzej Siewior committed Sep 13, 2021
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Expand Up @@ -8402,6 +8402,14 @@ int kvm_arch_init(void *opaque)
goto out;
}

#ifdef CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT
if (!boot_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_CONSTANT_TSC)) {
pr_err("RT requires X86_FEATURE_CONSTANT_TSC\n");
r = -EOPNOTSUPP;
goto out;
}
#endif

r = -ENOMEM;
x86_fpu_cache = kmem_cache_create("x86_fpu", sizeof(struct fpu),
__alignof__(struct fpu), SLAB_ACCOUNT,
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