diff --git a/include/asm-i386/alternative.h b/include/asm-i386/alternative.h
index 0f70b379b029..eb7da5402bfa 100644
--- a/include/asm-i386/alternative.h
+++ b/include/asm-i386/alternative.h
@@ -97,6 +97,12 @@ static inline void alternatives_smp_switch(int smp) {}
 		      "663:\n\t" newinstr "\n664:\n"   /* replacement */ \
 		      ".previous" : output : [feat] "i" (feature), ##input)
 
+/*
+ * use this macro(s) if you need more than one output parameter
+ * in alternative_io
+ */
+#define ASM_OUTPUT2(a, b) a, b
+
 /*
  * Alternative inline assembly for SMP.
  *
diff --git a/include/asm-i386/tsc.h b/include/asm-i386/tsc.h
index 3f3c1fa000b4..62c091ffcccc 100644
--- a/include/asm-i386/tsc.h
+++ b/include/asm-i386/tsc.h
@@ -35,14 +35,16 @@ static inline cycles_t get_cycles(void)
 static __always_inline cycles_t get_cycles_sync(void)
 {
 	unsigned long long ret;
-	unsigned eax;
+	unsigned eax, edx;
 
 	/*
   	 * 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");
+		       ASM_OUTPUT2("=a" (eax), "=d" (edx)),
+		       "a" (0U), "d" (0U) : "ecx", "memory");
+	ret = (((unsigned long long)edx) << 32) | ((unsigned long long)eax);
 	if (ret)
 		return ret;
 
diff --git a/include/asm-x86_64/alternative.h b/include/asm-x86_64/alternative.h
index a09fe85c268e..a09427640764 100644
--- a/include/asm-x86_64/alternative.h
+++ b/include/asm-x86_64/alternative.h
@@ -102,6 +102,12 @@ static inline void alternatives_smp_switch(int smp) {}
 		      "663:\n\t" newinstr "\n664:\n"   /* replacement */ \
 		      ".previous" : output : [feat] "i" (feature), ##input)
 
+/*
+ * use this macro(s) if you need more than one output parameter
+ * in alternative_io
+ */
+#define ASM_OUTPUT2(a, b) a, b
+
 /*
  * Alternative inline assembly for SMP.
  *