2 files changed, 19 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/kernel/time/clockevents.c b/kernel/time/clockevents.c
index 9cd928f7a7c6..7e1ce012a851 100644
--- a/kernel/time/clockevents.c
+++ b/kernel/time/clockevents.c
@@ -297,8 +297,7 @@ void clockevents_register_device(struct clock_event_device *dev)
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(clockevents_register_device);
 
-static void clockevents_config(struct clock_event_device *dev,
-                               u32 freq)
+void clockevents_config(struct clock_event_device *dev, u32 freq)
 {
         u64 sec;
 
diff --git a/kernel/time/tick-sched.c b/kernel/time/tick-sched.c
index 6a3a5b9ff561..efd386667536 100644
--- a/kernel/time/tick-sched.c
+++ b/kernel/time/tick-sched.c
@@ -814,6 +814,16 @@ static enum hrtimer_restart tick_sched_timer(struct hrtimer *timer)
         return HRTIMER_RESTART;
 }
 
+static int sched_skew_tick;
+
+static int __init skew_tick(char *str)
+{
+        get_option(&str, &sched_skew_tick);
+
+        return 0;
+}
+early_param("skew_tick", skew_tick);
+
 /**
  * tick_setup_sched_timer - setup the tick emulation timer
  */
@@ -831,6 +841,14 @@ void tick_setup_sched_timer(void)
         /* Get the next period (per cpu) */
         hrtimer_set_expires(&ts->sched_timer, tick_init_jiffy_update());
 
+        /* Offset the tick to avert xtime_lock contention. */
+        if (sched_skew_tick) {
+                u64 offset = ktime_to_ns(tick_period) >> 1;
+                do_div(offset, num_possible_cpus());
+                offset *= smp_processor_id();
+                hrtimer_add_expires_ns(&ts->sched_timer, offset);
+        }
+
         for (;;) {
                 hrtimer_forward(&ts->sched_timer, now, tick_period);
                 hrtimer_start_expires(&ts->sched_timer,