diff --git a/include/linux/sched/sysctl.h b/include/linux/sched/sysctl.h
index 5e9eb38d3058316698d81f795498dbc902bd9c78..6dc908ee837d7cddc3727b67054745ac6e246b7d 100644
--- a/include/linux/sched/sysctl.h
+++ b/include/linux/sched/sysctl.h
@@ -45,4 +45,5 @@ extern int sched_group_balancer_enable_handler(struct ctl_table *table, int writ
 extern unsigned int sysctl_sched_push_expellee_interval;
 #endif
 extern unsigned int sysctl_sched_idle_shares_relax;
+extern unsigned int sysctl_sched_idle_shares_value;
 #endif /* _LINUX_SCHED_SYSCTL_H */
diff --git a/kernel/sched/fair.c b/kernel/sched/fair.c
index 9b0b5ac4b3991a43e61c40af3ce446a94c8c92df..9a6bfea589b662a08f7da8d2602b8c8cd97572dd 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/fair.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/fair.c
@@ -85,6 +85,7 @@ static unsigned int normalized_sysctl_sched_base_slice	= 700000ULL;
 unsigned int sysctl_sched_child_runs_first __read_mostly;
 
 unsigned int sysctl_sched_idle_shares_relax;
+unsigned int sysctl_sched_idle_shares_value;
 
 const_debug unsigned int sysctl_sched_migration_cost	= 500000UL;
 unsigned int sysctl_sched_id_book_cpu_nr_tries = 5;
@@ -15363,8 +15364,11 @@ int sched_group_set_shares(struct task_group *tg, unsigned long shares)
 	mutex_lock(&shares_mutex);
 	if (tg_is_idle(tg) && !sysctl_sched_idle_shares_relax)
 		ret = -EINVAL;
-	else
+	else {
+		if (tg_is_idle(tg) && sysctl_sched_idle_shares_value)
+			shares = scale_load((unsigned long)sysctl_sched_idle_shares_value);
 		ret = __sched_group_set_shares(tg, shares);
+	}
 	mutex_unlock(&shares_mutex);
 
 	return ret;
diff --git a/kernel/sysctl.c b/kernel/sysctl.c
index cb9816a035a16e6accbb5b8b39fd2cbb7a8a7433..1a3bcc0cfd03ce4af6060a655baae4149c0e72eb 100644
--- a/kernel/sysctl.c
+++ b/kernel/sysctl.c
@@ -1645,6 +1645,8 @@ int proc_do_static_key(struct ctl_table *table, int write,
 	return ret;
 }
 
+static int max_shares = 1 << 18; /* MAX_SHARES */
+
 static struct ctl_table kern_table[] = {
 	{
 		.procname	= "panic",
@@ -2211,6 +2213,15 @@ static struct ctl_table kern_table[] = {
 		.extra1		= SYSCTL_ZERO,
 		.extra2		= SYSCTL_ONE,
 	},
+	{
+		.procname	= "sched_idle_shares_value",
+		.data		= &sysctl_sched_idle_shares_value,
+		.maxlen		= sizeof(unsigned int),
+		.mode		= 0644,
+		.proc_handler	= proc_dointvec_minmax,
+		.extra1		= SYSCTL_ZERO,
+		.extra2		= &max_shares,
+	},
 	{ }
 };