diff --git a/kernel/sched/fair.c b/kernel/sched/fair.c
index 8cff8d55ee95..c6b7d6daab20 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/fair.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/fair.c
@@ -9644,7 +9644,8 @@ static inline bool vruntime_normalized(struct task_struct *p)
 	 * - A task which has been woken up by try_to_wake_up() and
 	 *   waiting for actually being woken up by sched_ttwu_pending().
 	 */
-	if (!se->sum_exec_runtime || p->state == TASK_WAKING)
+	if (!se->sum_exec_runtime ||
+	    (p->state == TASK_WAKING && p->sched_remote_wakeup))
 		return true;
 
 	return false;