diff --git a/drivers/iommu/arm-smmu.c b/drivers/iommu/arm-smmu.c
index 293192150f5a..878a5b926fe5 100644
--- a/drivers/iommu/arm-smmu.c
+++ b/drivers/iommu/arm-smmu.c
@@ -1976,7 +1976,7 @@ static void __exit arm_smmu_exit(void)
 	return platform_driver_unregister(&arm_smmu_driver);
 }
 
-module_init(arm_smmu_init);
+subsys_initcall(arm_smmu_init);
 module_exit(arm_smmu_exit);
 
 MODULE_DESCRIPTION("IOMMU API for ARM architected SMMU implementations");