diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_active.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_active.c
index 91723123ae9f2e6f151768c465380581bf439fee..3103c1e1fd1484c5d123e38948982338466826ba 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_active.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_active.c
@@ -13,7 +13,6 @@
 
 #include "i915_drv.h"
 #include "i915_active.h"
-#include "i915_globals.h"
 
 /*
  * Active refs memory management
@@ -22,10 +21,7 @@
  * they idle (when we know the active requests are inactive) and allocate the
  * nodes from a local slab cache to hopefully reduce the fragmentation.
  */
-static struct i915_global_active {
-	struct i915_global base;
-	struct kmem_cache *slab_cache;
-} global;
+static struct kmem_cache *slab_cache;
 
 struct active_node {
 	struct rb_node node;
@@ -174,7 +170,7 @@ __active_retire(struct i915_active *ref)
 	/* Finally free the discarded timeline tree  */
 	rbtree_postorder_for_each_entry_safe(it, n, &root, node) {
 		GEM_BUG_ON(i915_active_fence_isset(&it->base));
-		kmem_cache_free(global.slab_cache, it);
+		kmem_cache_free(slab_cache, it);
 	}
 }
 
@@ -322,7 +318,7 @@ active_instance(struct i915_active *ref, u64 idx)
 	 * XXX: We should preallocate this before i915_active_ref() is ever
 	 *  called, but we cannot call into fs_reclaim() anyway, so use GFP_ATOMIC.
 	 */
-	node = kmem_cache_alloc(global.slab_cache, GFP_ATOMIC);
+	node = kmem_cache_alloc(slab_cache, GFP_ATOMIC);
 	if (!node)
 		goto out;
 
@@ -788,7 +784,7 @@ void i915_active_fini(struct i915_active *ref)
 	mutex_destroy(&ref->mutex);
 
 	if (ref->cache)
-		kmem_cache_free(global.slab_cache, ref->cache);
+		kmem_cache_free(slab_cache, ref->cache);
 }
 
 static inline bool is_idle_barrier(struct active_node *node, u64 idx)
@@ -908,7 +904,7 @@ int i915_active_acquire_preallocate_barrier(struct i915_active *ref,
 		node = reuse_idle_barrier(ref, idx);
 		rcu_read_unlock();
 		if (!node) {
-			node = kmem_cache_alloc(global.slab_cache, GFP_KERNEL);
+			node = kmem_cache_alloc(slab_cache, GFP_KERNEL);
 			if (!node)
 				goto unwind;
 
@@ -956,7 +952,7 @@ int i915_active_acquire_preallocate_barrier(struct i915_active *ref,
 		atomic_dec(&ref->count);
 		intel_engine_pm_put(barrier_to_engine(node));
 
-		kmem_cache_free(global.slab_cache, node);
+		kmem_cache_free(slab_cache, node);
 	}
 	return -ENOMEM;
 }
@@ -1176,21 +1172,16 @@ struct i915_active *i915_active_create(void)
 #include "selftests/i915_active.c"
 #endif
 
-static void i915_global_active_exit(void)
+void i915_active_module_exit(void)
 {
-	kmem_cache_destroy(global.slab_cache);
+	kmem_cache_destroy(slab_cache);
 }
 
-static struct i915_global_active global = { {
-	.exit = i915_global_active_exit,
-} };
-
-int __init i915_global_active_init(void)
+int __init i915_active_module_init(void)
 {
-	global.slab_cache = KMEM_CACHE(active_node, SLAB_HWCACHE_ALIGN);
-	if (!global.slab_cache)
+	slab_cache = KMEM_CACHE(active_node, SLAB_HWCACHE_ALIGN);
+	if (!slab_cache)
 		return -ENOMEM;
 
-	i915_global_register(&global.base);
 	return 0;
 }
diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_active.h b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_active.h
index d0feda68b874f9516d8997c67c2570e3be66495f..5fcdb0e2bc9e163a04557cc4164183fe42e6f16c 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_active.h
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_active.h
@@ -247,4 +247,7 @@ static inline int __i915_request_await_exclusive(struct i915_request *rq,
 	return err;
 }
 
+void i915_active_module_exit(void);
+int i915_active_module_init(void);
+
 #endif /* _I915_ACTIVE_H_ */
diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_globals.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_globals.c
index 91198f5b0a06a8a7cf0624949fc313ad2d68b71d..a53135ee831db4bac4b58344be1e74c8ae31f061 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_globals.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_globals.c
@@ -7,7 +7,6 @@
 #include <linux/slab.h>
 #include <linux/workqueue.h>
 
-#include "i915_active.h"
 #include "i915_buddy.h"
 #include "gem/i915_gem_context.h"
 #include "gem/i915_gem_object.h"
@@ -34,7 +33,6 @@ static void __i915_globals_cleanup(void)
 }
 
 static __initconst int (* const initfn[])(void) = {
-	i915_global_active_init,
 	i915_global_buddy_init,
 	i915_global_context_init,
 	i915_global_gem_context_init,
diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_globals.h b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_globals.h
index 9e6b4fd0752892cc23d736bee75089fb44393742..d80901ba75e3dd11eb759a26f1497f9f899ce897 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_globals.h
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_globals.h
@@ -23,7 +23,6 @@ int i915_globals_init(void);
 void i915_globals_exit(void);
 
 /* constructors */
-int i915_global_active_init(void);
 int i915_global_context_init(void);
 int i915_global_gem_context_init(void);
 int i915_global_objects_init(void);
diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_pci.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_pci.c
index dbaa6d5006fb60f2e511c4cda9c90379401bb4b8..930dd93de7b039c46410a6104b4fbdc02abba442 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_pci.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_pci.c
@@ -30,6 +30,7 @@
 
 #include "display/intel_fbdev.h"
 
+#include "i915_active.h"
 #include "i915_drv.h"
 #include "i915_perf.h"
 #include "i915_globals.h"
@@ -1259,6 +1260,7 @@ static const struct {
    void (*exit)(void);
 } init_funcs[] = {
 	{ i915_check_nomodeset, NULL },
+	{ i915_active_module_init, i915_active_module_exit },
 	{ i915_globals_init, i915_globals_exit },
 	{ i915_mock_selftests, NULL },
 	{ i915_pmu_init, i915_pmu_exit },