diff --git a/vp9/encoder/vp9_sad_c.c b/vp9/encoder/vp9_sad_c.c
index 42ddb21a51b1a741809d0ee2af93562a11fdb788..55d595baf255f61721d85d2843b0f5a81d69c785 100644
--- a/vp9/encoder/vp9_sad_c.c
+++ b/vp9/encoder/vp9_sad_c.c
@@ -10,11 +10,11 @@
 
 
 #include <stdlib.h>
-#include "vp9/common/vp9_sadmxn.h"
-#include "vp9/encoder/vp9_variance.h"
+#include "./vp9_rtcd.h"
 #include "./vpx_config.h"
+#include "vp9/encoder/vp9_sadmxn.h"
+#include "vp9/encoder/vp9_variance.h"
 #include "vpx/vpx_integer.h"
-#include "./vp9_rtcd.h"
 
 #define sad_mxn_func(m, n) \
 unsigned int vp9_sad##m##x##n##_c(const uint8_t *src_ptr, \
diff --git a/vp9/common/vp9_sadmxn.h b/vp9/encoder/vp9_sadmxn.h
similarity index 100%
rename from vp9/common/vp9_sadmxn.h
rename to vp9/encoder/vp9_sadmxn.h
diff --git a/vp9/vp9_common.mk b/vp9/vp9_common.mk
index 57ede0fd316e6d046c64f5d3813a9b9842b580eb..c566765bf848e9b6139622a43d1e1159a2f699c4 100644
--- a/vp9/vp9_common.mk
+++ b/vp9/vp9_common.mk
@@ -45,7 +45,6 @@ VP9_COMMON_SRCS-yes += common/vp9_reconinter.h
 VP9_COMMON_SRCS-yes += common/vp9_reconintra.h
 VP9_COMMON_SRCS-yes += common/vp9_rtcd.c
 VP9_COMMON_SRCS-yes += common/vp9_rtcd_defs.sh
-VP9_COMMON_SRCS-yes += common/vp9_sadmxn.h
 VP9_COMMON_SRCS-yes += common/vp9_scale.h
 VP9_COMMON_SRCS-yes += common/vp9_scale.c
 VP9_COMMON_SRCS-yes += common/vp9_seg_common.h
diff --git a/vp9/vp9cx.mk b/vp9/vp9cx.mk
index b5947797f0f7b05d037d3918ff3e9d746dbbc52e..bd13518f5d6f5b529259753e9d5a56e27038b651 100644
--- a/vp9/vp9cx.mk
+++ b/vp9/vp9cx.mk
@@ -44,6 +44,7 @@ VP9_CX_SRCS-yes += encoder/vp9_psnr.h
 VP9_CX_SRCS-yes += encoder/vp9_quantize.h
 VP9_CX_SRCS-yes += encoder/vp9_ratectrl.h
 VP9_CX_SRCS-yes += encoder/vp9_rdopt.h
+VP9_CX_SRCS-yes += encoder/vp9_sadmxn.h
 VP9_CX_SRCS-yes += encoder/vp9_tokenize.h
 VP9_CX_SRCS-yes += encoder/vp9_treewriter.h
 VP9_CX_SRCS-yes += encoder/vp9_variance.h