[tip: sched/hrtick] sched: Avoid ktime_get() indirection

From: tip-bot2 for Thomas Gleixner

Date: Sat Feb 28 2026 - 10:55:33 EST


The following commit has been merged into the sched/hrtick branch of tip:

Commit-ID: d70c1080a957a5144e6c40e95bcbe04ab542fe05
Gitweb: https://git.kernel.org/tip/d70c1080a957a5144e6c40e95bcbe04ab542fe05
Author: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxx>
AuthorDate: Tue, 24 Feb 2026 17:35:32 +01:00
Committer: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
CommitterDate: Fri, 27 Feb 2026 16:40:04 +01:00

sched: Avoid ktime_get() indirection

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>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260224163429.001511662@xxxxxxxxxx
---
kernel/sched/core.c | 3 +--
kernel/sched/deadline.c | 2 +-
2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/sched/core.c b/kernel/sched/core.c
index 7597776..a716cc6 100644
--- 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 delay)
* 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);
diff --git a/kernel/sched/deadline.c b/kernel/sched/deadline.c
index d08b004..9d619a4 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/deadline.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/deadline.c
@@ -1097,7 +1097,7 @@ static int start_dl_timer(struct sched_dl_entity *dl_se)
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);