diff --git a/kernel/watchdog.c b/kernel/watchdog.c
index ced7d06..4431610 100644
--- a/kernel/watchdog.c
+++ b/kernel/watchdog.c
@@ -486,7 +486,52 @@
 	.unpark			= watchdog_enable,
 };
 
-static int watchdog_enable_all_cpus(void)
+static void restart_watchdog_hrtimer(void *info)
+{
+	struct hrtimer *hrtimer = &__raw_get_cpu_var(watchdog_hrtimer);
+	int ret;
+
+	/*
+	 * No need to cancel and restart hrtimer if it is currently executing
+	 * because it will reprogram itself with the new period now.
+	 * We should never see it unqueued here because we are running per-cpu
+	 * with interrupts disabled.
+	 */
+	ret = hrtimer_try_to_cancel(hrtimer);
+	if (ret == 1)
+		hrtimer_start(hrtimer, ns_to_ktime(sample_period),
+				HRTIMER_MODE_REL_PINNED);
+}
+
+static void update_timers(int cpu)
+{
+	struct call_single_data data = {.func = restart_watchdog_hrtimer};
+	/*
+	 * Make sure that perf event counter will adopt to a new
+	 * sampling period. Updating the sampling period directly would
+	 * be much nicer but we do not have an API for that now so
+	 * let's use a big hammer.
+	 * Hrtimer will adopt the new period on the next tick but this
+	 * might be late already so we have to restart the timer as well.
+	 */
+	watchdog_nmi_disable(cpu);
+	__smp_call_function_single(cpu, &data, 1);
+	watchdog_nmi_enable(cpu);
+}
+
+static void update_timers_all_cpus(void)
+{
+	int cpu;
+
+	get_online_cpus();
+	preempt_disable();
+	for_each_online_cpu(cpu)
+		update_timers(cpu);
+	preempt_enable();
+	put_online_cpus();
+}
+
+static int watchdog_enable_all_cpus(bool sample_period_changed)
 {
 	int err = 0;
 
@@ -496,6 +541,8 @@
 			pr_err("Failed to create watchdog threads, disabled\n");
 		else
 			watchdog_running = 1;
+	} else if (sample_period_changed) {
+		update_timers_all_cpus();
 	}
 
 	return err;
@@ -537,7 +584,7 @@
 	 * watchdog_*_all_cpus() function takes care of this.
 	 */
 	if (watchdog_user_enabled && watchdog_thresh)
-		err = watchdog_enable_all_cpus();
+		err = watchdog_enable_all_cpus(old_thresh != watchdog_thresh);
 	else
 		watchdog_disable_all_cpus();
 
@@ -557,5 +604,5 @@
 	set_sample_period();
 
 	if (watchdog_user_enabled)
-		watchdog_enable_all_cpus();
+		watchdog_enable_all_cpus(false);
 }