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diff --git a/include/asm-i386/tsc.h b/include/asm-i386/tsc.h
index 0181f9df7539..3f3c1fa000b4 100644
--- a/include/asm-i386/tsc.h
+++ b/include/asm-i386/tsc.h
@@ -38,6 +38,15 @@ static __always_inline cycles_t get_cycles_sync(void)
unsigned eax;
/*
+ * Use RDTSCP if possible; it is guaranteed to be synchronous
+ * and doesn't cause a VMEXIT on Hypervisors
+ */
+ alternative_io(ASM_NOP3, ".byte 0x0f,0x01,0xf9", X86_FEATURE_RDTSCP,
+ "=A" (ret), "0" (0ULL) : "ecx", "memory");
+ if (ret)
+ return ret;
+
+ /*
* Don't do an additional sync on CPUs where we know
* RDTSC is already synchronous:
*/
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