diff --git a/drivers/gpu/nvgpu/include/nvgpu/posix/nvgpu_mem.h b/drivers/gpu/nvgpu/include/nvgpu/posix/nvgpu_mem.h
index 5ce813584..51b152a7c 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/nvgpu/include/nvgpu/posix/nvgpu_mem.h
+++ b/drivers/gpu/nvgpu/include/nvgpu/posix/nvgpu_mem.h
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 /*
- * Copyright (c) 2017-2018, NVIDIA CORPORATION.  All rights reserved.
+ * Copyright (c) 2017-2019, NVIDIA CORPORATION.  All rights reserved.
  *
  * Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a
  * copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"),
@@ -39,5 +39,7 @@ struct nvgpu_sgt *nvgpu_mem_sgt_posix_create_from_list(struct gk20a *g,
 				u64 *total_size);
 int nvgpu_mem_posix_create_from_list(struct gk20a *g, struct nvgpu_mem *mem,
 				struct nvgpu_mem_sgl *sgl_list, u32 nr_sgls);
+int __nvgpu_mem_create_from_phys(struct gk20a *g, struct nvgpu_mem *dest,
+				  u64 src_phys, int nr_pages);
 
 #endif
diff --git a/drivers/gpu/nvgpu/os/posix/posix-nvgpu_mem.c b/drivers/gpu/nvgpu/os/posix/posix-nvgpu_mem.c
index b6c0a8525..a70ef7e94 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/nvgpu/os/posix/posix-nvgpu_mem.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/nvgpu/os/posix/posix-nvgpu_mem.c
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 /*
- * Copyright (c) 2018, NVIDIA CORPORATION.  All rights reserved.
+ * Copyright (c) 2018-2019, NVIDIA CORPORATION.  All rights reserved.
  *
  * Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a
  * copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"),
@@ -264,3 +264,10 @@ int nvgpu_mem_create_from_mem(struct gk20a *g,
 
 	return 0;
 }
+
+int __nvgpu_mem_create_from_phys(struct gk20a *g, struct nvgpu_mem *dest,
+				 u64 src_phys, int nr_pages)
+{
+	BUG();
+	return 0;
+}