diff --git a/drivers/char/random.c b/drivers/char/random.c
index 92e6c67..2d5daf9 100644
--- a/drivers/char/random.c
+++ b/drivers/char/random.c
@@ -643,7 +643,7 @@
  */
 void add_device_randomness(const void *buf, unsigned int size)
 {
-	unsigned long time = get_cycles() ^ jiffies;
+	unsigned long time = random_get_entropy() ^ jiffies;
 
 	mix_pool_bytes(&input_pool, buf, size, NULL);
 	mix_pool_bytes(&input_pool, &time, sizeof(time), NULL);
@@ -680,7 +680,7 @@
 		goto out;
 
 	sample.jiffies = jiffies;
-	sample.cycles = get_cycles();
+	sample.cycles = random_get_entropy();
 	sample.num = num;
 	mix_pool_bytes(&input_pool, &sample, sizeof(sample), NULL);
 
@@ -747,7 +747,7 @@
 	struct fast_pool	*fast_pool = &__get_cpu_var(irq_randomness);
 	struct pt_regs		*regs = get_irq_regs();
 	unsigned long		now = jiffies;
-	__u32			input[4], cycles = get_cycles();
+	__u32			input[4], cycles = random_get_entropy();
 
 	input[0] = cycles ^ jiffies;
 	input[1] = irq;
@@ -1485,7 +1485,7 @@
 
 	hash = get_cpu_var(get_random_int_hash);
 
-	hash[0] += current->pid + jiffies + get_cycles();
+	hash[0] += current->pid + jiffies + random_get_entropy();
 	md5_transform(hash, random_int_secret);
 	ret = hash[0];
 	put_cpu_var(get_random_int_hash);
diff --git a/include/linux/timex.h b/include/linux/timex.h
index b3726e6..da4c32d 100644
--- a/include/linux/timex.h
+++ b/include/linux/timex.h
@@ -64,6 +64,20 @@
 
 #include <asm/timex.h>
 
+#ifndef random_get_entropy
+/*
+ * The random_get_entropy() function is used by the /dev/random driver
+ * in order to extract entropy via the relative unpredictability of
+ * when an interrupt takes places versus a high speed, fine-grained
+ * timing source or cycle counter.  Since it will be occurred on every
+ * single interrupt, it must have a very low cost/overhead.
+ *
+ * By default we use get_cycles() for this purpose, but individual
+ * architectures may override this in their asm/timex.h header file.
+ */
+#define random_get_entropy()	get_cycles()
+#endif
+
 /*
  * SHIFT_PLL is used as a dampening factor to define how much we
  * adjust the frequency correction for a given offset in PLL mode.