From 6d433304f1894bb7aefb0b6e58e8e41e5e18a6b4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 Message-Id: <6d433304f1894bb7aefb0b6e58e8e41e5e18a6b4.1594742966.git.zanussi@kernel.org> In-Reply-To: <832f7d97d6b989a5b4860dd2dbec58ad6ad5ab81.1594742966.git.zanussi@kernel.org> References: <832f7d97d6b989a5b4860dd2dbec58ad6ad5ab81.1594742966.git.zanussi@kernel.org> From: Thomas Gleixner Date: Sun, 6 Nov 2011 12:26:18 +0100 Subject: [PATCH 090/329] x86: kvm Require const tsc for RT Origin: https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/projects/rt/4.19/older/patches-4.19.132-rt59.tar.xz 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 --- arch/x86/kvm/x86.c | 7 +++++++ 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+) diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c b/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c index 0aa5c4134b90..5dcb794b88e2 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c @@ -6848,6 +6848,13 @@ int kvm_arch_init(void *opaque) goto out; } +#ifdef CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT_FULL + if (!boot_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_CONSTANT_TSC)) { + printk(KERN_ERR "RT requires X86_FEATURE_CONSTANT_TSC\n"); + return -EOPNOTSUPP; + } +#endif + r = kvm_mmu_module_init(); if (r) goto out_free_percpu; -- 2.17.1