diff --git a/[refs] b/[refs]
index 0c9b9967b2df..599792d5921d 100644
--- a/[refs]
+++ b/[refs]
@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
 ---
-refs/heads/master: 17bdcf949d03306b308c5fb694849cd35f119807
+refs/heads/master: ef8002f6848236de5adc613063ebeabddea8a6fb
diff --git a/trunk/kernel/sched.c b/trunk/kernel/sched.c
index 728081a7ef1c..771b518e5f1f 100644
--- a/trunk/kernel/sched.c
+++ b/trunk/kernel/sched.c
@@ -2025,6 +2025,9 @@ task_hot(struct task_struct *p, u64 now, struct sched_domain *sd)
 	if (p->sched_class != &fair_sched_class)
 		return 0;
 
+	if (unlikely(p->policy == SCHED_IDLE))
+		return 0;
+
 	/*
 	 * Buddy candidates are cache hot:
 	 */