diff --git a/kernel/time/timekeeping.c b/kernel/time/timekeeping.c
index 7a24813..02c0b2c 100644
--- a/kernel/time/timekeeping.c
+++ b/kernel/time/timekeeping.c
@@ -290,10 +290,65 @@
 	       clock->name);
 	 */
 }
-#else
+#else /* GENERIC_TIME */
 static inline void clocksource_forward_now(void) { }
 static inline void change_clocksource(void) { }
-#endif
+
+/**
+ * ktime_get - get the monotonic time in ktime_t format
+ *
+ * returns the time in ktime_t format
+ */
+ktime_t ktime_get(void)
+{
+	struct timespec now;
+
+	ktime_get_ts(&now);
+
+	return timespec_to_ktime(now);
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(ktime_get);
+
+/**
+ * ktime_get_ts - get the monotonic clock in timespec format
+ * @ts:		pointer to timespec variable
+ *
+ * The function calculates the monotonic clock from the realtime
+ * clock and the wall_to_monotonic offset and stores the result
+ * in normalized timespec format in the variable pointed to by @ts.
+ */
+void ktime_get_ts(struct timespec *ts)
+{
+	struct timespec tomono;
+	unsigned long seq;
+
+	do {
+		seq = read_seqbegin(&xtime_lock);
+		getnstimeofday(ts);
+		tomono = wall_to_monotonic;
+
+	} while (read_seqretry(&xtime_lock, seq));
+
+	set_normalized_timespec(ts, ts->tv_sec + tomono.tv_sec,
+				ts->tv_nsec + tomono.tv_nsec);
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(ktime_get_ts);
+#endif /* !GENERIC_TIME */
+
+/**
+ * ktime_get_real - get the real (wall-) time in ktime_t format
+ *
+ * returns the time in ktime_t format
+ */
+ktime_t ktime_get_real(void)
+{
+	struct timespec now;
+
+	getnstimeofday(&now);
+
+	return timespec_to_ktime(now);
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(ktime_get_real);
 
 /**
  * getrawmonotonic - Returns the raw monotonic time in a timespec