From: Joel Fernandes <joelagnelf@nvidia.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Matthew Auld <matthew.auld@intel.com>,
Arun Pravin <arunpravin.paneerselvam@amd.com>,
Christian Koenig <christian.koenig@amd.com>,
David Airlie <airlied@gmail.com>, Simona Vetter <simona@ffwll.ch>,
Dave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com>,
Joel Fernandes <joelagnelf@nvidia.com>
Cc: Danilo Krummrich <dakr@kernel.org>,
Miguel Ojeda <ojeda@kernel.org>, Gary Guo <gary@garyguo.net>,
Daniel Almeida <daniel.almeida@collabora.com>,
Koen Koning <koen.koning@linux.intel.com>,
dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org, nouveau@lists.freedesktop.org,
rust-for-linux@vger.kernel.org, intel-xe@lists.freedesktop.org,
Peter Senna Tschudin <peter.senna@linux.intel.com>
Subject: [PATCH v10 3/8] gpu: Fix uninitialized buddy for built-in drivers
Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2026 15:55:01 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260218205507.689429-4-joelagnelf@nvidia.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260218205507.689429-1-joelagnelf@nvidia.com>
From: Koen Koning <koen.koning@linux.intel.com>
Use subsys_initcall instead of module_init for the GPU buddy allocator,
so its initialization code runs before any gpu drivers.
Otherwise, a built-in driver that tries to use the buddy allocator will
run into a kernel NULL pointer dereference because slab_blocks is
uninitialized.
Specifically, this fixes drm/xe (as built-in) running into a kernel
panic during boot, because it uses buddy during device probe.
Fixes: ba110db8e1bc ("gpu: Move DRM buddy allocator one level up (part two)")
Cc: Joel Fernandes <joelagnelf@nvidia.com>
Cc: Dave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com>
Cc: intel-xe@lists.freedesktop.org
Cc: Peter Senna Tschudin <peter.senna@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Matthew Auld <matthew.auld@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Koen Koning <koen.koning@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Joel Fernandes <joelagnelf@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Joel Fernandes <joelagnelf@nvidia.com>
---
drivers/gpu/buddy.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/drivers/gpu/buddy.c b/drivers/gpu/buddy.c
index 603c59a2013a..81f57fdf913b 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/buddy.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/buddy.c
@@ -1315,7 +1315,7 @@ static int __init gpu_buddy_module_init(void)
return 0;
}
-module_init(gpu_buddy_module_init);
+subsys_initcall(gpu_buddy_module_init);
module_exit(gpu_buddy_module_exit);
MODULE_DESCRIPTION("GPU Buddy Allocator");
--
2.34.1
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-02-18 20:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <20260218205507.689429-1-joelagnelf@nvidia.com>
2026-02-18 20:54 ` [PATCH v10 1/8] gpu: Move DRM buddy allocator one level up (part one) Joel Fernandes
2026-02-18 20:55 ` [PATCH v10 2/8] gpu: Move DRM buddy allocator one level up (part two) Joel Fernandes
2026-02-19 3:18 ` Alexandre Courbot
2026-02-18 20:55 ` Joel Fernandes [this message]
2026-02-19 10:09 ` [PATCH v10 3/8] gpu: Fix uninitialized buddy for built-in drivers Danilo Krummrich
2026-02-19 15:31 ` Joel Fernandes
2026-02-19 16:24 ` Joel Fernandes
2026-02-18 20:59 ` [PATCH v10 0/8] Preparatory patches for nova-core memory management Joel Fernandes
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