diff --git a/kernel/sched/fair.c b/kernel/sched/fair.c
index 911d0063763c..8dbff6e7ad4f 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/fair.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/fair.c
@@ -699,7 +699,7 @@ u64 avg_vruntime(struct cfs_rq *cfs_rq)
  *
  * XXX could add max_slice to the augmented data to track this.
  */
-void update_entity_lag(struct cfs_rq *cfs_rq, struct sched_entity *se)
+static void update_entity_lag(struct cfs_rq *cfs_rq, struct sched_entity *se)
 {
 	s64 lag, limit;