diff --git a/kernel/cgroup/cpuset.c b/kernel/cgroup/cpuset.c
index 89c0879ef01b..88e12d8efcd2 100644
--- a/kernel/cgroup/cpuset.c
+++ b/kernel/cgroup/cpuset.c
@@ -1125,7 +1125,15 @@ restart:
 	 */
 	if (cgrpv2) {
 		for (i = 0; i < ndoms; i++) {
-			cpumask_copy(doms[i], csa[i]->effective_cpus);
+			/*
+			 * The top cpuset may contain some boot time isolated
+			 * CPUs that need to be excluded from the sched domain.
+			 */
+			if (csa[i] == &top_cpuset)
+				cpumask_and(doms[i], csa[i]->effective_cpus,
+					    housekeeping_cpumask(HK_TYPE_DOMAIN));
+			else
+				cpumask_copy(doms[i], csa[i]->effective_cpus);
 			if (dattr)
 				dattr[i] = SD_ATTR_INIT;
 		}