diff --git a/arch/arm64/mm/numa.c b/arch/arm64/mm/numa.c
index aafcee3e3f7e..73f8b49d485c 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/mm/numa.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/mm/numa.c
@@ -461,13 +461,3 @@ void __init arm64_numa_init(void)
 
 	numa_init(dummy_numa_init);
 }
-
-/*
- * We hope that we will be hotplugging memory on nodes we already know about,
- * such that acpi_get_node() succeeds and we never fall back to this...
- */
-int memory_add_physaddr_to_nid(u64 addr)
-{
-	pr_warn("Unknown node for memory at 0x%llx, assuming node 0\n", addr);
-	return 0;
-}
diff --git a/arch/ia64/mm/numa.c b/arch/ia64/mm/numa.c
index 5e1015eb6d0d..f34964271101 100644
--- a/arch/ia64/mm/numa.c
+++ b/arch/ia64/mm/numa.c
@@ -106,7 +106,5 @@ int memory_add_physaddr_to_nid(u64 addr)
 		return 0;
 	return nid;
 }
-
-EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(memory_add_physaddr_to_nid);
 #endif
 #endif
diff --git a/arch/sh/mm/init.c b/arch/sh/mm/init.c
index 613de8096335..cd1379360f08 100644
--- a/arch/sh/mm/init.c
+++ b/arch/sh/mm/init.c
@@ -425,15 +425,6 @@ int arch_add_memory(int nid, u64 start, u64 size,
 	return ret;
 }
 
-#ifdef CONFIG_NUMA
-int memory_add_physaddr_to_nid(u64 addr)
-{
-	/* Node 0 for now.. */
-	return 0;
-}
-EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(memory_add_physaddr_to_nid);
-#endif
-
 void arch_remove_memory(int nid, u64 start, u64 size,
 			struct vmem_altmap *altmap)
 {
diff --git a/arch/x86/mm/numa.c b/arch/x86/mm/numa.c
index b05f45e5e8e2..aa76ec2d359b 100644
--- a/arch/x86/mm/numa.c
+++ b/arch/x86/mm/numa.c
@@ -929,5 +929,4 @@ int memory_add_physaddr_to_nid(u64 start)
 		nid = numa_meminfo.blk[0].nid;
 	return nid;
 }
-EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(memory_add_physaddr_to_nid);
 #endif
diff --git a/mm/memory_hotplug.c b/mm/memory_hotplug.c
index ac6961abaa10..6289a909ea36 100644
--- a/mm/memory_hotplug.c
+++ b/mm/memory_hotplug.c
@@ -350,6 +350,16 @@ int __ref __add_pages(int nid, unsigned long pfn, unsigned long nr_pages,
 	return err;
 }
 
+#ifdef CONFIG_NUMA
+int __weak memory_add_physaddr_to_nid(u64 start)
+{
+	pr_info_once("Unknown target node for memory at 0x%llx, assuming node 0\n",
+			start);
+	return 0;
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(memory_add_physaddr_to_nid);
+#endif
+
 /* find the smallest valid pfn in the range [start_pfn, end_pfn) */
 static unsigned long find_smallest_section_pfn(int nid, struct zone *zone,
 				     unsigned long start_pfn,