diff --git a/arch/hexagon/mm/init.c b/arch/hexagon/mm/init.c
index 146115c9de61..f164b377b93b 100644
--- a/arch/hexagon/mm/init.c
+++ b/arch/hexagon/mm/init.c
@@ -86,7 +86,7 @@ void sync_icache_dcache(pte_t pte)
  * In this mode, we only have one pg_data_t
  * structure: contig_mem_data.
  */
-void __init paging_init(void)
+static void __init paging_init(void)
 {
 	unsigned long max_zone_pfn[MAX_NR_ZONES] = {0, };