diff --git a/meson.build b/meson.build
index 9022bcfdc9..e4f36e8574 100644
--- a/meson.build
+++ b/meson.build
@@ -553,7 +553,6 @@ functions = [
   'posix_fallocate',
   'posix_memalign',
   'prlimit',
-  'sched_getaffinity',
   'sched_setscheduler',
   'setgroups',
   'setns',
@@ -602,6 +601,7 @@ headers = [
   'net/if.h',
   'pty.h',
   'pwd.h',
+  'sched.h',
   'sys/auxv.h',
   'sys/ioctl.h',
   'sys/mount.h',
@@ -671,6 +671,8 @@ symbols = [
 
   # Check for BSD approach for setting MAC addr
   [ 'net/if_dl.h', 'link_addr', '#include <sys/types.h>\n#include <sys/socket.h>' ],
+
+  [ 'sched.h', 'cpu_set_t' ],
 ]
 
 if host_machine.system() == 'linux'
diff --git a/src/util/virprocess.c b/src/util/virprocess.c
index 6de3f36f52..81de90200e 100644
--- a/src/util/virprocess.c
+++ b/src/util/virprocess.c
@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@
 # include <sys/time.h>
 # include <sys/resource.h>
 #endif
-#if WITH_SCHED_SETSCHEDULER
+#if WITH_SCHED_H
 # include <sched.h>
 #endif
 
@@ -480,7 +480,7 @@ int virProcessKillPainfully(pid_t pid, bool force)
     return virProcessKillPainfullyDelay(pid, force, 0, false);
 }
 
-#if WITH_SCHED_GETAFFINITY
+#if WITH_DECL_CPU_SET_T
 
 int virProcessSetAffinity(pid_t pid, virBitmap *map, bool quiet)
 {
@@ -626,7 +626,7 @@ virProcessGetAffinity(pid_t pid)
     return ret;
 }
 
-#else /* WITH_SCHED_GETAFFINITY */
+#else /* WITH_DECL_CPU_SET_T */
 
 int virProcessSetAffinity(pid_t pid G_GNUC_UNUSED,
                           virBitmap *map G_GNUC_UNUSED,
@@ -646,7 +646,7 @@ virProcessGetAffinity(pid_t pid G_GNUC_UNUSED)
                          _("Process CPU affinity is not supported on this platform"));
     return NULL;
 }
-#endif /* WITH_SCHED_GETAFFINITY */
+#endif /* WITH_DECL_CPU_SET_T */
 
 
 int virProcessGetPids(pid_t pid, size_t *npids, pid_t **pids)