diff --git a/arch/ia64/mm/discontig.c b/arch/ia64/mm/discontig.c
index 573d5cc..2f5e448 100644
--- a/arch/ia64/mm/discontig.c
+++ b/arch/ia64/mm/discontig.c
@@ -525,7 +525,7 @@
  * find_pernode_space() does most of this already, we just need to set
  * local_per_cpu_offset
  */
-void *per_cpu_init(void)
+void __cpuinit *per_cpu_init(void)
 {
 	int cpu;
 	static int first_time = 1;