diff --git a/kernel/hung_task.c b/kernel/hung_task.c
index 0b9c169d577f..06bb1417b063 100644
--- a/kernel/hung_task.c
+++ b/kernel/hung_task.c
@@ -246,5 +246,4 @@ static int __init hung_task_init(void)
 
 	return 0;
 }
-
-module_init(hung_task_init);
+subsys_initcall(hung_task_init);
diff --git a/kernel/kexec.c b/kernel/kexec.c
index 45601cf41bee..c0d261c7db7b 100644
--- a/kernel/kexec.c
+++ b/kernel/kexec.c
@@ -1235,7 +1235,7 @@ static int __init crash_notes_memory_init(void)
 	}
 	return 0;
 }
-module_init(crash_notes_memory_init)
+subsys_initcall(crash_notes_memory_init);
 
 
 /*
@@ -1629,7 +1629,7 @@ static int __init crash_save_vmcoreinfo_init(void)
 	return 0;
 }
 
-module_init(crash_save_vmcoreinfo_init)
+subsys_initcall(crash_save_vmcoreinfo_init);
 
 /*
  * Move into place and start executing a preloaded standalone
diff --git a/kernel/profile.c b/kernel/profile.c
index ebdd9c1a86b4..1b266dbe755a 100644
--- a/kernel/profile.c
+++ b/kernel/profile.c
@@ -604,5 +604,5 @@ int __ref create_proc_profile(void) /* false positive from hotcpu_notifier */
 	hotcpu_notifier(profile_cpu_callback, 0);
 	return 0;
 }
-module_init(create_proc_profile);
+subsys_initcall(create_proc_profile);
 #endif /* CONFIG_PROC_FS */
diff --git a/kernel/sched/stats.c b/kernel/sched/stats.c
index da98af347e8b..a476bea17fbc 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/stats.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/stats.c
@@ -142,4 +142,4 @@ static int __init proc_schedstat_init(void)
 	proc_create("schedstat", 0, NULL, &proc_schedstat_operations);
 	return 0;
 }
-module_init(proc_schedstat_init);
+subsys_initcall(proc_schedstat_init);
diff --git a/kernel/user.c b/kernel/user.c
index c006131beb77..294fc6a94168 100644
--- a/kernel/user.c
+++ b/kernel/user.c
@@ -222,5 +222,4 @@ static int __init uid_cache_init(void)
 
 	return 0;
 }
-
-module_init(uid_cache_init);
+subsys_initcall(uid_cache_init);
diff --git a/kernel/user_namespace.c b/kernel/user_namespace.c
index dd06439b9c84..0d8f6023fd8d 100644
--- a/kernel/user_namespace.c
+++ b/kernel/user_namespace.c
@@ -902,4 +902,4 @@ static __init int user_namespaces_init(void)
 	user_ns_cachep = KMEM_CACHE(user_namespace, SLAB_PANIC);
 	return 0;
 }
-module_init(user_namespaces_init);
+subsys_initcall(user_namespaces_init);