diff --git a/arch/x86/platform/intel-quark/imr_selftest.c b/arch/x86/platform/intel-quark/imr_selftest.c
index f5bad40936ac5bc7a4b47a868fb07121963fe2be..b8f562049cad102cd315987f87b099bed97e4cce 100644
--- a/arch/x86/platform/intel-quark/imr_selftest.c
+++ b/arch/x86/platform/intel-quark/imr_selftest.c
@@ -25,7 +25,8 @@
  * @fmt:	format string.
  * ...		variadic argument list.
  */
-static void __init imr_self_test_result(int res, const char *fmt, ...)
+static __printf(2, 3)
+void __init imr_self_test_result(int res, const char *fmt, ...)
 {
 	va_list vlist;