diff --git a/src/runtime/pkg/resourcecontrol/utils.go b/src/runtime/pkg/resourcecontrol/utils.go
index 6fafe2d6a0..835cb54c47 100644
--- a/src/runtime/pkg/resourcecontrol/utils.go
+++ b/src/runtime/pkg/resourcecontrol/utils.go
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@ package resourcecontrol
 
 import (
 	"fmt"
+	"strings"
 
 	"github.com/opencontainers/runc/libcontainer/devices"
 	"github.com/opencontainers/runtime-spec/specs-go"
@@ -57,3 +58,20 @@ func DeviceToLinuxDevice(device string) (specs.LinuxDeviceCgroup, error) {
 		Access: string(dev.Permissions),
 	}, nil
 }
+
+func IsSystemdCgroup(cgroupPath string) bool {
+
+	// If we are utilizing systemd to manage cgroups, we expect to receive a path
+	// in the format slice:scopeprefix:name. A typical example would be:
+	//
+	// system.slice:docker:6b4c4a4d0cc2a12c529dcb13a2b8e438dfb3b2a6af34d548d7d
+	//
+	// Based on this, let's split by the ':' delimiter and verify that the first
+	// section has .slice as a suffix.
+	parts := strings.Split(cgroupPath, ":")
+	if len(parts) == 3 && strings.HasSuffix(parts[0], ".slice") {
+		return true
+	}
+
+	return false
+}
diff --git a/src/runtime/pkg/resourcecontrol/utils_linux.go b/src/runtime/pkg/resourcecontrol/utils_linux.go
index 7a83db8f00..73d77dc235 100644
--- a/src/runtime/pkg/resourcecontrol/utils_linux.go
+++ b/src/runtime/pkg/resourcecontrol/utils_linux.go
@@ -43,23 +43,6 @@ func ValidCgroupPath(path string, systemdCgroup bool) (string, error) {
 	return filepath.Join(DefaultResourceControllerID, filepath.Clean("/"+path)), nil
 }
 
-func IsSystemdCgroup(cgroupPath string) bool {
-
-	// If we are utilizing systemd to manage cgroups, we expect to receive a path
-	// in the format slice:scopeprefix:name. A typical example would be:
-	//
-	// system.slice:docker:6b4c4a4d0cc2a12c529dcb13a2b8e438dfb3b2a6af34d548d7d
-	//
-	// Based on this, let's split by the ':' delimiter and verify that the first
-	// section has .slice as a suffix.
-	parts := strings.Split(cgroupPath, ":")
-	if len(parts) == 3 && strings.HasSuffix(parts[0], ".slice") {
-		return true
-	}
-
-	return false
-}
-
 func newProperty(name string, units interface{}) systemdDbus.Property {
 	return systemdDbus.Property{
 		Name:  name,