diff --git a/include/linux/sched.h b/include/linux/sched.h
index 20b03bf94748..2909fe7a622d 100644
--- a/include/linux/sched.h
+++ b/include/linux/sched.h
@@ -1955,7 +1955,6 @@ static inline void disable_sched_clock_irqtime(void) {}
 
 extern unsigned long long
 task_sched_runtime(struct task_struct *task);
-extern unsigned long long thread_group_sched_runtime(struct task_struct *task);
 
 /* sched_exec is called by processes performing an exec */
 #ifdef CONFIG_SMP
diff --git a/kernel/posix-cpu-timers.c b/kernel/posix-cpu-timers.c
index 58f405b581e7..c8008dd58ef2 100644
--- a/kernel/posix-cpu-timers.c
+++ b/kernel/posix-cpu-timers.c
@@ -250,7 +250,7 @@ void thread_group_cputime(struct task_struct *tsk, struct task_cputime *times)
 	do {
 		times->utime = cputime_add(times->utime, t->utime);
 		times->stime = cputime_add(times->stime, t->stime);
-		times->sum_exec_runtime += t->se.sum_exec_runtime;
+		times->sum_exec_runtime += task_sched_runtime(t);
 	} while_each_thread(tsk, t);
 out:
 	rcu_read_unlock();
@@ -312,7 +312,8 @@ static int cpu_clock_sample_group(const clockid_t which_clock,
 		cpu->cpu = cputime.utime;
 		break;
 	case CPUCLOCK_SCHED:
-		cpu->sched = thread_group_sched_runtime(p);
+		thread_group_cputime(p, &cputime);
+		cpu->sched = cputime.sum_exec_runtime;
 		break;
 	}
 	return 0;
diff --git a/kernel/sched.c b/kernel/sched.c
index ccacdbdecf45..e1290ecee3c2 100644
--- a/kernel/sched.c
+++ b/kernel/sched.c
@@ -3724,30 +3724,6 @@ unsigned long long task_sched_runtime(struct task_struct *p)
 	return ns;
 }
 
-/*
- * Return sum_exec_runtime for the thread group.
- * In case the task is currently running, return the sum plus current's
- * pending runtime that have not been accounted yet.
- *
- * Note that the thread group might have other running tasks as well,
- * so the return value not includes other pending runtime that other
- * running tasks might have.
- */
-unsigned long long thread_group_sched_runtime(struct task_struct *p)
-{
-	struct task_cputime totals;
-	unsigned long flags;
-	struct rq *rq;
-	u64 ns;
-
-	rq = task_rq_lock(p, &flags);
-	thread_group_cputime(p, &totals);
-	ns = totals.sum_exec_runtime + do_task_delta_exec(p, rq);
-	task_rq_unlock(rq, p, &flags);
-
-	return ns;
-}
-
 /*
  * Account user cpu time to a process.
  * @p: the process that the cpu time gets accounted to