[patch 04/48] sched: Avoid ktime_get() indirection

From: Thomas Gleixner

Date: Tue Feb 24 2026 - 11:37:09 EST


The clock of the hrtick and deadline timers is known to be CLOCK_MONOTONIC.
No point in looking it up via hrtimer_cb_get_time().

Just use ktime_get() directly.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
kernel/sched/core.c | 3 +--
kernel/sched/deadline.c | 2 +-
2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

--- a/kernel/sched/core.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/core.c
@@ -925,7 +925,6 @@ static void __hrtick_start(void *arg)
*/
void hrtick_start(struct rq *rq, u64 delay)
{
- struct hrtimer *timer = &rq->hrtick_timer;
s64 delta;

/*
@@ -933,7 +932,7 @@ void hrtick_start(struct rq *rq, u64 del
* doesn't make sense and can cause timer DoS.
*/
delta = max_t(s64, delay, 10000LL);
- rq->hrtick_time = ktime_add_ns(hrtimer_cb_get_time(timer), delta);
+ rq->hrtick_time = ktime_add_ns(ktime_get(), delta);

if (rq == this_rq())
__hrtick_restart(rq);
--- a/kernel/sched/deadline.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/deadline.c
@@ -1097,7 +1097,7 @@ static int start_dl_timer(struct sched_d
act = ns_to_ktime(dl_next_period(dl_se));
}

- now = hrtimer_cb_get_time(timer);
+ now = ktime_get();
delta = ktime_to_ns(now) - rq_clock(rq);
act = ktime_add_ns(act, delta);