diff --git a/include/sys/time.h b/include/sys/time.h
index 6124a841d3..297e6ff749 100644
--- a/include/sys/time.h
+++ b/include/sys/time.h
@@ -15,14 +15,17 @@ extern "C" {
 #include <sys/types.h>
 
 extern unsigned long long monotonic_clock(void);
+extern void __gethrestime(timestruc_t *);
 
-#define TIME32_MAX      INT32_MAX
-#define TIME32_MIN      INT32_MIN
+#define gethrestime(ts)			__gethrestime(ts)
 
-#define SEC             1
-#define MILLISEC        1000
-#define MICROSEC        1000000
-#define NANOSEC         1000000000
+#define TIME32_MAX			INT32_MAX
+#define TIME32_MIN			INT32_MIN
+
+#define SEC				1
+#define MILLISEC			1000
+#define MICROSEC			1000000
+#define NANOSEC				1000000000
 
 #define hz					\
 ({						\
@@ -30,7 +33,14 @@ extern unsigned long long monotonic_clock(void);
         HZ;					\
 })
 
-#define gethrestime(ts) getnstimeofday((ts))
+static __inline__ time_t
+gethrestime_sec(void)
+{
+        timestruc_t now;
+
+        __gethrestime(&now);
+        return now.tv_sec;
+}
 
 static __inline__ hrtime_t
 gethrtime(void) {
@@ -44,15 +54,6 @@ gethrtime(void) {
         return monotonic_clock();
 }
 
-static __inline__ time_t
-gethrestime_sec(void)
-{
-        timestruc_t now;
-
-        gethrestime(&now);
-        return (now.tv_sec);
-}
-
 
 #ifdef  __cplusplus
 }
diff --git a/modules/spl/Makefile.in b/modules/spl/Makefile.in
index 1d152e61b3..78ebdfa0cb 100644
--- a/modules/spl/Makefile.in
+++ b/modules/spl/Makefile.in
@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@ spl-objs += spl-taskq.o
 spl-objs += spl-rwlock.o
 spl-objs += spl-vnode.o
 spl-objs += spl-err.o
+spl-objs += spl-time.o
 spl-objs += spl-generic.o
 
 splmodule := spl.ko
diff --git a/modules/spl/spl-time.c b/modules/spl/spl-time.c
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..f0ec4c5a08
--- /dev/null
+++ b/modules/spl/spl-time.c
@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+#include <sys/sysmacros.h>
+#include <sys/time.h>
+#include "config.h"
+
+void
+__gethrestime(timestruc_t *ts)
+{
+	getnstimeofday((struct timespec *)ts);
+}
+
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(__gethrestime);