diff --git a/mm/process_vm_access.c b/mm/process_vm_access.c
index 3c5cf68566ec1375ff4d4deedc09db4c540e4b37..cb79065c19e55f054888430555b44199425dd72b 100644
--- a/mm/process_vm_access.c
+++ b/mm/process_vm_access.c
@@ -412,7 +412,7 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE6(process_vm_writev, pid_t, pid,
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_COMPAT
 
-asmlinkage ssize_t
+static ssize_t
 compat_process_vm_rw(compat_pid_t pid,
 		     const struct compat_iovec __user *lvec,
 		     unsigned long liovcnt,