/* scale is effectively 1 << i now, and >> i divides by scale */
- old_load = this_rq->cpu_load[i] - tickless_load;
+ old_load = this_rq->cpu_load[i];
old_load = decay_load_missed(old_load, pending_updates - 1, i);
- old_load += tickless_load;
+ if (tickless_load) {
+ old_load -= decay_load_missed(tickless_load, pending_updates - 1, i);
+ /*
+ * old_load can never be a negative value because a
+ * decayed tickless_load cannot be greater than the
+ * original tickless_load.
+ */
+ old_load += tickless_load;
+ }
new_load = this_load;
/*
* Round up the averaging division if load is increasing. This