diff --git a/include/linux/posix-timers.h b/include/linux/posix-timers.h
index a3731ba15bce..ed0f6ec30aa6 100644
--- a/include/linux/posix-timers.h
+++ b/include/linux/posix-timers.h
@@ -65,27 +65,39 @@ static inline int clockid_to_fd(const clockid_t clk)
 /*
  * Alternate field names for struct task_cputime when used on cache
  * expirations. Will go away soon.
+ *
+ * stime corresponds to CLOCKCPU_PROF
+ * utime corresponds to CLOCKCPU_VIRT
+ * sum_exex_runtime corresponds to CLOCKCPU_SCHED
+ *
+ * The ordering is currently enforced so struct task_cputime and the
+ * expiries array in struct posix_cputimers are equivalent.
  */
-#define virt_exp			utime
 #define prof_exp			stime
+#define virt_exp			utime
 #define sched_exp			sum_exec_runtime
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_POSIX_TIMERS
 /**
  * posix_cputimers - Container for posix CPU timer related data
- * @cputime_expires:	Earliest-expiration cache
+ * @cputime_expires:	Earliest-expiration cache task_cputime based
+ * @expiries:		Earliest-expiration cache array based
  * @cpu_timers:		List heads to queue posix CPU timers
  *
  * Used in task_struct and signal_struct
  */
 struct posix_cputimers {
-	struct task_cputime	cputime_expires;
-	struct list_head	cpu_timers[CPUCLOCK_MAX];
+	/* Temporary union until all users are cleaned up */
+	union {
+		struct task_cputime	cputime_expires;
+		u64			expiries[CPUCLOCK_MAX];
+	};
+	struct list_head		cpu_timers[CPUCLOCK_MAX];
 };
 
 static inline void posix_cputimers_init(struct posix_cputimers *pct)
 {
-	memset(&pct->cputime_expires, 0, sizeof(pct->cputime_expires));
+	memset(&pct->expiries, 0, sizeof(pct->expiries));
 	INIT_LIST_HEAD(&pct->cpu_timers[0]);
 	INIT_LIST_HEAD(&pct->cpu_timers[1]);
 	INIT_LIST_HEAD(&pct->cpu_timers[2]);
@@ -96,7 +108,7 @@ void posix_cputimers_group_init(struct posix_cputimers *pct, u64 cpu_limit);
 static inline void posix_cputimers_rt_watchdog(struct posix_cputimers *pct,
 					       u64 runtime)
 {
-	pct->cputime_expires.sched_exp = runtime;
+	pct->expiries[CPUCLOCK_SCHED] = runtime;
 }
 
 /* Init task static initializer */
diff --git a/include/linux/sched/types.h b/include/linux/sched/types.h
index 2c5c28ddd9b2..3c3e049224ae 100644
--- a/include/linux/sched/types.h
+++ b/include/linux/sched/types.h
@@ -6,8 +6,8 @@
 
 /**
  * struct task_cputime - collected CPU time counts
- * @utime:		time spent in user mode, in nanoseconds
  * @stime:		time spent in kernel mode, in nanoseconds
+ * @utime:		time spent in user mode, in nanoseconds
  * @sum_exec_runtime:	total time spent on the CPU, in nanoseconds
  *
  * This structure groups together three kinds of CPU time that are tracked for
@@ -15,8 +15,8 @@
  * these counts together and treat all three of them in parallel.
  */
 struct task_cputime {
-	u64				utime;
 	u64				stime;
+	u64				utime;
 	unsigned long long		sum_exec_runtime;
 };
 
diff --git a/kernel/time/posix-cpu-timers.c b/kernel/time/posix-cpu-timers.c
index 3e29d1692437..a38b6d04e8b5 100644
--- a/kernel/time/posix-cpu-timers.c
+++ b/kernel/time/posix-cpu-timers.c
@@ -18,13 +18,23 @@
 
 #include "posix-timers.h"
 
+static inline void temporary_check(void)
+{
+	BUILD_BUG_ON(offsetof(struct task_cputime, stime) !=
+		     CPUCLOCK_PROF * sizeof(u64));
+	BUILD_BUG_ON(offsetof(struct task_cputime, utime) !=
+		     CPUCLOCK_VIRT * sizeof(u64));
+	BUILD_BUG_ON(offsetof(struct task_cputime, sum_exec_runtime) !=
+		     CPUCLOCK_SCHED * sizeof(u64));
+}
+
 static void posix_cpu_timer_rearm(struct k_itimer *timer);
 
 void posix_cputimers_group_init(struct posix_cputimers *pct, u64 cpu_limit)
 {
 	posix_cputimers_init(pct);
 	if (cpu_limit != RLIM_INFINITY)
-		pct->cputime_expires.prof_exp = cpu_limit * NSEC_PER_SEC;
+		pct->expiries[CPUCLOCK_PROF] = cpu_limit * NSEC_PER_SEC;
 }
 
 /*