diff --git a/kernel/sched.c b/kernel/sched.c
index f04aa9664504..8ec9d13140be 100644
--- a/kernel/sched.c
+++ b/kernel/sched.c
@@ -2192,6 +2192,7 @@ void kick_process(struct task_struct *p)
 		smp_send_reschedule(cpu);
 	preempt_enable();
 }
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(kick_process);
 
 /*
  * Return a low guess at the load of a migration-source cpu weighted