diff --git a/arch/ia64/kernel/efi.c b/arch/ia64/kernel/efi.c
index 49b93682c752..f45f91d38cab 100644
--- a/arch/ia64/kernel/efi.c
+++ b/arch/ia64/kernel/efi.c
@@ -1142,7 +1142,7 @@ efi_initialize_iomem_resources(struct resource *code_resource,
 /* find a block of memory aligned to 64M exclude reserved regions
    rsvd_regions are sorted
  */
-unsigned long
+unsigned long __init
 kdump_find_rsvd_region (unsigned long size,
 		struct rsvd_region *r, int n)
 {