diff --git a/kernel/sched/fair.c b/kernel/sched/fair.c
index a7589552be5f..2a33cb5a10e5 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/fair.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/fair.c
@@ -6286,7 +6286,8 @@ static int select_idle_sibling(struct task_struct *p, int prev, int target)
 	if (is_per_cpu_kthread(current) &&
 	    in_task() &&
 	    prev == smp_processor_id() &&
-	    this_rq()->nr_running <= 1) {
+	    this_rq()->nr_running <= 1 &&
+	    asym_fits_capacity(task_util, prev)) {
 		return prev;
 	}