diff --git a/kernel/sched/core.c b/kernel/sched/core.c
index c98a2688f390..71dffbb27ce6 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/core.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/core.c
@@ -7381,8 +7381,6 @@ void __init sched_init(void)
 		for (j = 0; j < CPU_LOAD_IDX_MAX; j++)
 			rq->cpu_load[j] = 0;
 
-		rq->last_load_update_tick = jiffies;
-
 #ifdef CONFIG_SMP
 		rq->sd = NULL;
 		rq->rd = NULL;
@@ -7401,12 +7399,13 @@ void __init sched_init(void)
 
 		rq_attach_root(rq, &def_root_domain);
 #ifdef CONFIG_NO_HZ_COMMON
+		rq->last_load_update_tick = jiffies;
 		rq->nohz_flags = 0;
 #endif
 #ifdef CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL
 		rq->last_sched_tick = 0;
 #endif
-#endif
+#endif /* CONFIG_SMP */
 		init_rq_hrtick(rq);
 		atomic_set(&rq->nr_iowait, 0);
 	}
diff --git a/kernel/sched/fair.c b/kernel/sched/fair.c
index b70367a3e1ef..b8a33abce650 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/fair.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/fair.c
@@ -4491,7 +4491,7 @@ static void dequeue_task_fair(struct rq *rq, struct task_struct *p, int flags)
 }
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_SMP
-
+#ifdef CONFIG_NO_HZ_COMMON
 /*
  * per rq 'load' arrray crap; XXX kill this.
  */
@@ -4557,6 +4557,7 @@ decay_load_missed(unsigned long load, unsigned long missed_updates, int idx)
 	}
 	return load;
 }
+#endif /* CONFIG_NO_HZ_COMMON */
 
 /**
  * __cpu_load_update - update the rq->cpu_load[] statistics
@@ -4596,7 +4597,7 @@ decay_load_missed(unsigned long load, unsigned long missed_updates, int idx)
 static void cpu_load_update(struct rq *this_rq, unsigned long this_load,
 			    unsigned long pending_updates)
 {
-	unsigned long tickless_load = this_rq->cpu_load[0];
+	unsigned long __maybe_unused tickless_load = this_rq->cpu_load[0];
 	int i, scale;
 
 	this_rq->nr_load_updates++;
@@ -4609,6 +4610,7 @@ static void cpu_load_update(struct rq *this_rq, unsigned long this_load,
 		/* scale is effectively 1 << i now, and >> i divides by scale */
 
 		old_load = this_rq->cpu_load[i];
+#ifdef CONFIG_NO_HZ_COMMON
 		old_load = decay_load_missed(old_load, pending_updates - 1, i);
 		if (tickless_load) {
 			old_load -= decay_load_missed(tickless_load, pending_updates - 1, i);
@@ -4619,6 +4621,7 @@ static void cpu_load_update(struct rq *this_rq, unsigned long this_load,
 			 */
 			old_load += tickless_load;
 		}
+#endif
 		new_load = this_load;
 		/*
 		 * Round up the averaging division if load is increasing. This
@@ -4731,8 +4734,10 @@ static inline void cpu_load_update_nohz(struct rq *this_rq,
 
 static void cpu_load_update_periodic(struct rq *this_rq, unsigned long load)
 {
+#ifdef CONFIG_NO_HZ_COMMON
 	/* See the mess around cpu_load_update_nohz(). */
 	this_rq->last_load_update_tick = READ_ONCE(jiffies);
+#endif
 	cpu_load_update(this_rq, load, 1);
 }
 
diff --git a/kernel/sched/sched.h b/kernel/sched/sched.h
index 32d9e22cfacf..69da6fcaa0e8 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/sched.h
+++ b/kernel/sched/sched.h
@@ -585,11 +585,13 @@ struct rq {
 #endif
 	#define CPU_LOAD_IDX_MAX 5
 	unsigned long cpu_load[CPU_LOAD_IDX_MAX];
-	unsigned long last_load_update_tick;
 #ifdef CONFIG_NO_HZ_COMMON
+#ifdef CONFIG_SMP
+	unsigned long last_load_update_tick;
+#endif /* CONFIG_SMP */
 	u64 nohz_stamp;
 	unsigned long nohz_flags;
-#endif
+#endif /* CONFIG_NO_HZ_COMMON */
 #ifdef CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL
 	unsigned long last_sched_tick;
 #endif