diff --git a/accel/tcg/tcg-accel-ops.c b/accel/tcg/tcg-accel-ops.c
index aeb1cbaf65..af35e0d092 100644
--- a/accel/tcg/tcg-accel-ops.c
+++ b/accel/tcg/tcg-accel-ops.c
@@ -31,6 +31,7 @@
 #include "sysemu/cpu-timers.h"
 #include "qemu/main-loop.h"
 #include "qemu/guest-random.h"
+#include "qemu/timer.h"
 #include "exec/exec-all.h"
 #include "exec/hwaddr.h"
 #include "exec/gdbstub.h"
diff --git a/accel/tcg/translate-all.c b/accel/tcg/translate-all.c
index 4b5abc0f44..a5bea8f99c 100644
--- a/accel/tcg/translate-all.c
+++ b/accel/tcg/translate-all.c
@@ -51,6 +51,7 @@
 #include "qemu/qemu-print.h"
 #include "qemu/main-loop.h"
 #include "qemu/cacheinfo.h"
+#include "qemu/timer.h"
 #include "exec/log.h"
 #include "sysemu/cpus.h"
 #include "sysemu/cpu-timers.h"
diff --git a/softmmu/runstate.c b/softmmu/runstate.c
index f9ad88e6a7..9b3611d56d 100644
--- a/softmmu/runstate.c
+++ b/softmmu/runstate.c
@@ -46,6 +46,7 @@
 #include "qemu/module.h"
 #include "qemu/plugin.h"
 #include "qemu/sockets.h"
+#include "qemu/timer.h"
 #include "qemu/thread.h"
 #include "qom/object.h"
 #include "qom/object_interfaces.h"
diff --git a/tcg/tcg.c b/tcg/tcg.c
index 5cccc06ae3..6b830ade4c 100644
--- a/tcg/tcg.c
+++ b/tcg/tcg.c
@@ -36,6 +36,7 @@
 #include "qemu/qemu-print.h"
 #include "qemu/cacheflush.h"
 #include "qemu/cacheinfo.h"
+#include "qemu/timer.h"
 
 /* Note: the long term plan is to reduce the dependencies on the QEMU
    CPU definitions. Currently they are used for qemu_ld/st