diff --git a/arch/um/include/asm/timex.h b/arch/um/include/asm/timex.h
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+/* SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 */
+#ifndef __UM_TIMEX_H
+#define __UM_TIMEX_H
+
+/*
+ * Do not fall back to the host architecture header because latter likely
+ * includes facilities like cpu_feature_enabled() which are present only
+ * there. That would result in build breakages and/or efforts to "emulate"
+ * those facilities in UML.
+ */
+#include <asm-generic/timex.h>
+
+#endif