diff --git a/kernel/sched/deadline.c b/kernel/sched/deadline.c
index 4c666dbe5038..f584837b32e7 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/deadline.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/deadline.c
@@ -86,6 +86,8 @@ void add_running_bw(u64 dl_bw, struct dl_rq *dl_rq)
 	dl_rq->running_bw += dl_bw;
 	SCHED_WARN_ON(dl_rq->running_bw < old); /* overflow */
 	SCHED_WARN_ON(dl_rq->running_bw > dl_rq->this_bw);
+	/* kick cpufreq (see the comment in kernel/sched/sched.h). */
+	cpufreq_update_util(rq_of_dl_rq(dl_rq), SCHED_CPUFREQ_DL);
 }
 
 static inline
@@ -98,6 +100,8 @@ void sub_running_bw(u64 dl_bw, struct dl_rq *dl_rq)
 	SCHED_WARN_ON(dl_rq->running_bw > old); /* underflow */
 	if (dl_rq->running_bw > old)
 		dl_rq->running_bw = 0;
+	/* kick cpufreq (see the comment in kernel/sched/sched.h). */
+	cpufreq_update_util(rq_of_dl_rq(dl_rq), SCHED_CPUFREQ_DL);
 }
 
 static inline
@@ -1134,9 +1138,6 @@ static void update_curr_dl(struct rq *rq)
 		return;
 	}
 
-	/* kick cpufreq (see the comment in kernel/sched/sched.h). */
-	cpufreq_update_util(rq, SCHED_CPUFREQ_DL);
-
 	schedstat_set(curr->se.statistics.exec_max,
 		      max(curr->se.statistics.exec_max, delta_exec));
 
diff --git a/kernel/sched/sched.h b/kernel/sched/sched.h
index 136ab500daeb..863964fbcfd2 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/sched.h
+++ b/kernel/sched/sched.h
@@ -2055,14 +2055,14 @@ DECLARE_PER_CPU(struct update_util_data *, cpufreq_update_util_data);
  * The way cpufreq is currently arranged requires it to evaluate the CPU
  * performance state (frequency/voltage) on a regular basis to prevent it from
  * being stuck in a completely inadequate performance level for too long.
- * That is not guaranteed to happen if the updates are only triggered from CFS,
- * though, because they may not be coming in if RT or deadline tasks are active
- * all the time (or there are RT and DL tasks only).
+ * That is not guaranteed to happen if the updates are only triggered from CFS
+ * and DL, though, because they may not be coming in if only RT tasks are
+ * active all the time (or there are RT tasks only).
  *
- * As a workaround for that issue, this function is called by the RT and DL
- * sched classes to trigger extra cpufreq updates to prevent it from stalling,
+ * As a workaround for that issue, this function is called periodically by the
+ * RT sched class to trigger extra cpufreq updates to prevent it from stalling,
  * but that really is a band-aid.  Going forward it should be replaced with
- * solutions targeted more specifically at RT and DL tasks.
+ * solutions targeted more specifically at RT tasks.
  */
 static inline void cpufreq_update_util(struct rq *rq, unsigned int flags)
 {