[Bug] Segmentation fault when using TVM together with `transformers` (flan-t5-base + bfloat16 + `use_cache=True`)

### Describe the bug

When I import TVM, create a target, and then load a Hugging Face `transformers` model (`google/flan-t5-base` with `torch_dtype=torch.bfloat16` and `use_cache=True`) and call `generate()`, the Python process crashes with a segmentation fault.

The crash happens before any TVM compilation or runtime calls on the model — simply creating a TVM target and then using `AutoModelForSeq2SeqLM.generate()` is enough to trigger a segfault. The stack trace shows the failure occurring during `dlopen` and initialization of LLVM’s COFF option table (`llvm::opt::OptTable::buildPrefixChars()` / `COFFDirectiveParser.cpp`).

This looks like a dynamic linking / LLVM initialization interaction between TVM and other LLVM-using components loaded by `transformers` / PyTorch.

---

### Minimal reproducible example

```python
#!/usr/bin/env python3
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-

"""
Minimal repro: TVM + transformers (flan-t5-base) cause a segfault.

Steps:
1) Import TVM and create a target/device.
2) Import AutoModelForSeq2SeqLM("google/flan-t5-base", bfloat16, use_cache=True).
3) Run one generate() on random input_ids.
"""

import torch
from torch import nn
import tvm

def main():
# 1) Load TVM and create a target (triggers LLVM / TVM runtime loading)
if torch.cuda.is_available():
target = tvm.target.Target("cuda")
device = "cuda"
else:
target = tvm.target.Target("llvm")
device = "cpu"
print("TVM target:", target)

# 2) Now import transformers and load flan-t5-base
from transformers import AutoModelForSeq2SeqLM

class MyModel(nn.Module):
def __init__(self):
super().__init__()
self.model = AutoModelForSeq2SeqLM.from_pretrained(
"google/flan-t5-base",
torch_dtype=torch.bfloat16,
use_cache=True,
)

def forward(self, input_ids, attention_mask=None, **gen_kwargs):
return self.model.generate(
input_ids,
attention_mask=attention_mask,
**gen_kwargs,
)

model = MyModel().to(device)
model.eval()

# 3) Single generate() call on random input
input_ids = torch.randint(0, 10000, (1, 512), dtype=torch.long, device=device)
attention_mask = torch.ones_like(input_ids)

with torch.no_grad():
out = model(
input_ids,
attention_mask=attention_mask,
max_new_tokens=8,
)

print("generate() finished, output shape:", out.shape)

if __name__ == "__main__":
main()
```

Run:

```bash
python minimal_tvm_transformers_segfault.py
```

---

### Actual behavior

On my machine, the script prints the TVM target and then immediately crashes with a segmentation fault. The beginning of the output looks like this:

```text
TVM target: cuda -keys=cuda,gpu -arch=sm_86 -max_num_threads=1024 -thread_warp_size=32
!!!!!!! Segfault encountered !!!!!!!
File "./signal/../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/x86_64/libc_sigaction.c", line 0, in 0x00007e827de4251f
File "", line 0, in llvm::opt::OptTable::buildPrefixChars()
File "", line 0, in COFFOptTable::COFFOptTable()
File "", line 0, in _GLOBAL__sub_I_COFFDirectiveParser.cpp
File "./elf/dl-init.c", line 70, in call_init
File "./elf/dl-init.c", line 33, in call_init
File "./elf/dl-init.c", line 117, in _dl_init
File "./elf/dl-error-skeleton.c", line 182, in __GI__dl_catch_exception
File "./elf/dl-open.c", line 808, in dl_open_worker
...
Segmentation fault (core dumped)
```

The full stack trace is quite long, but it mainly consists of `dlopen` / `dl-init` frames and LLVM initialization calls such as `llvm::opt::OptTable::buildPrefixChars()` and `COFFDirectiveParser.cpp` global constructors.

---

### Expected behavior

I expect the script to run without a segmentation fault, print the TVM target, run one `generate()` call on `flan-t5-base`, and print the generated output tensor shape.

TVM is not actually compiling or running this model in the repro — only importing TVM and creating a target is required — so ideally it should coexist safely with `transformers` / PyTorch / their dependencies.

---

### Environment

* OS: Linux x86_64 (glibc-based, from backtrace paths such as `./elf/dl-open.c`)
* Python: `3.10.16 | packaged by conda-forge | (main, Apr 8 2025, 20:53:32) [GCC 13.3.0]`
* NumPy: `2.2.6`
* PyTorch: `2.9.0+cu128`
* TVM:

* Version: `0.22.0`
* LLVM version (reported by `tvm.support.libinfo()`): `17.0.6`
* GIT_COMMIT_HASH: `9dbf3f22ff6f44962472f9af310fda368ca85ef2`
* GPU / CUDA:

* TVM target: `cuda -keys=cuda,gpu -arch=sm_86 -max_num_threads=1024 -thread_warp_size=32`
* CUDA toolkit likely 12.8 (from PyTorch build tag `+cu128`)

```python
import tvm, torch, transformers
from tvm import support

print("TVM version:", getattr(tvm, "__version__", "unknown"))
print("TVM LLVM version:", support.libinfo().get("LLVM_VERSION", "unknown"))
print("PyTorch:", torch.__version__)
print("transformers:", transformers.__version__)
```

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* bug

Empieza ejecutando minimal_tvm_transformers_segfault.py y compara la pila del fallo con los frames de inicialización de dlopen y LLVM indicados. Céntrate en la interacción entre tvm.target.Target("cuda" o "llvm"), transformers y el orden de carga de PyTorch. Se considera completado cuando la reproducción termina generate() e imprime la forma del tensor de salida sin producir un segmentation fault.

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