diff --git a/include/linux/timekeeping.h b/include/linux/timekeeping.h
index 68e6678a743b..2fc606203c8c 100644
--- a/include/linux/timekeeping.h
+++ b/include/linux/timekeeping.h
@@ -108,7 +108,6 @@ enum tk_offsets {
 
 extern ktime_t ktime_get(void);
 extern ktime_t ktime_get_with_offset(enum tk_offsets offs);
-extern ktime_t ktime_get_boottime(void);
 extern ktime_t ktime_get_monotonic_offset(void);
 extern ktime_t ktime_get_clocktai(void);
 
@@ -120,6 +119,17 @@ static inline ktime_t ktime_get_real(void)
 	return ktime_get_with_offset(TK_OFFS_REAL);
 }
 
+/**
+ * ktime_get_boottime - Returns monotonic time since boot in ktime_t format
+ *
+ * This is similar to CLOCK_MONTONIC/ktime_get, but also includes the
+ * time spent in suspend.
+ */
+static inline ktime_t ktime_get_boottime(void)
+{
+	return ktime_get_with_offset(TK_OFFS_BOOT);
+}
+
 /*
  * RTC specific
  */
diff --git a/kernel/time/timekeeping.c b/kernel/time/timekeeping.c
index 56db2e16970a..5e60aa09af79 100644
--- a/kernel/time/timekeeping.c
+++ b/kernel/time/timekeeping.c
@@ -1565,23 +1565,6 @@ void get_monotonic_boottime(struct timespec *ts)
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(get_monotonic_boottime);
 
-/**
- * ktime_get_boottime - Returns monotonic time since boot in a ktime
- *
- * Returns the monotonic time since boot in a ktime
- *
- * This is similar to CLOCK_MONTONIC/ktime_get, but also
- * includes the time spent in suspend.
- */
-ktime_t ktime_get_boottime(void)
-{
-	struct timespec ts;
-
-	get_monotonic_boottime(&ts);
-	return timespec_to_ktime(ts);
-}
-EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(ktime_get_boottime);
-
 /**
  * monotonic_to_bootbased - Convert the monotonic time to boot based.
  * @ts:		pointer to the timespec to be converted