diff --git a/kernel/workqueue.c b/kernel/workqueue.c
index 86ce3dcd16d4..51e79add0f29 100644
--- a/kernel/workqueue.c
+++ b/kernel/workqueue.c
@@ -5821,13 +5821,13 @@ static void __init wq_numa_init(void)
 int __init workqueue_init_early(void)
 {
 	int std_nice[NR_STD_WORKER_POOLS] = { 0, HIGHPRI_NICE_LEVEL };
-	int hk_flags = HK_FLAG_DOMAIN | HK_FLAG_WQ;
+	int hk_flags __maybe_unused = HK_FLAG_DOMAIN | HK_FLAG_WQ;
 	int i, cpu;
 
 	WARN_ON(__alignof__(struct pool_workqueue) < __alignof__(long long));
 
 	BUG_ON(!alloc_cpumask_var(&wq_unbound_cpumask, GFP_KERNEL));
-	cpumask_copy(wq_unbound_cpumask, housekeeping_cpumask(hk_flags));
+	cpumask_copy(wq_unbound_cpumask, cpu_lp_mask);
 
 	pwq_cache = KMEM_CACHE(pool_workqueue, SLAB_PANIC);