diff --git a/kernel/sched/fair.c b/kernel/sched/fair.c
index 13bafe350abf..7b0da7007da3 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/fair.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/fair.c
@@ -9519,22 +9519,26 @@ static inline int on_null_domain(struct rq *rq)
  * - When one of the busy CPUs notice that there may be an idle rebalancing
  *   needed, they will kick the idle load balancer, which then does idle
  *   load balancing for all the idle CPUs.
+ * - HK_FLAG_MISC CPUs are used for this task, because HK_FLAG_SCHED not set
+ *   anywhere yet.
  */
 
 static inline int find_new_ilb(void)
 {
-	int ilb = cpumask_first(nohz.idle_cpus_mask);
+	int ilb;
 
-	if (ilb < nr_cpu_ids && idle_cpu(ilb))
-		return ilb;
+	for_each_cpu_and(ilb, nohz.idle_cpus_mask,
+			      housekeeping_cpumask(HK_FLAG_MISC)) {
+		if (idle_cpu(ilb))
+			return ilb;
+	}
 
 	return nr_cpu_ids;
 }
 
 /*
- * Kick a CPU to do the nohz balancing, if it is time for it. We pick the
- * nohz_load_balancer CPU (if there is one) otherwise fallback to any idle
- * CPU (if there is one).
+ * Kick a CPU to do the nohz balancing, if it is time for it. We pick any
+ * idle CPU in the HK_FLAG_MISC housekeeping set (if there is one).
  */
 static void kick_ilb(unsigned int flags)
 {