diff --git a/install.py b/install.py
index 4e2b7ab9..f48721c0 100644
--- a/install.py
+++ b/install.py
@@ -77,14 +77,6 @@ def install_liger():
     subprocess.check_call(cmd)
 
 
-def install_xformers():
-    os_env = os.environ.copy()
-    os_env["TORCH_CUDA_ARCH_LIST"] = "8.0;9.0;9.0a"
-    XFORMERS_PATH = REPO_PATH.joinpath("submodules", "xformers")
-    cmd = ["pip", "install", "-e", XFORMERS_PATH]
-    subprocess.check_call(cmd, env=os_env)
-
-
 if __name__ == "__main__":
     parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(allow_abbrev=False)
     parser.add_argument("--fbgemm", action="store_true", help="Install FBGEMM GPU")
@@ -145,6 +137,7 @@ def install_xformers():
         install_liger()
     if args.xformers or args.all:
         logger.info("[tritonbench] installing xformers...")
+        from tools.xformers.install import install_xformers
         install_xformers()
     if args.hstu or args.all:
         logger.info("[tritonbench] installing hstu...")
diff --git a/tools/xformers/install.py b/tools/xformers/install.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..4130c38e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tools/xformers/install.py
@@ -0,0 +1,42 @@
+import os
+import subprocess
+import sys
+from pathlib import Path
+
+REPO_PATH = Path(os.path.abspath(__file__)).parent.parent.parent
+PATCH_DIR = str(
+    REPO_PATH.joinpath("submodules", "xformers")
+    .absolute()
+)
+PATCH_FILE = os.path.join(os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(__file__)), "xformers.patch")
+
+
+def patch_xformers():
+    try:
+        subprocess.check_output(
+            [
+                "patch",
+                "-p1",
+                "--forward",
+                "-i",
+                PATCH_FILE,
+                "-r",
+                "/tmp/rej",
+            ],
+            cwd=PATCH_DIR,
+        )
+    except subprocess.SubprocessError as e:
+        output_str = str(e.output)
+        if "previously applied" in output_str:
+            return
+        else:
+            print(str(output_str))
+            sys.exit(1)
+
+def install_xformers():
+    patch_xformers()
+    os_env = os.environ.copy()
+    os_env["TORCH_CUDA_ARCH_LIST"] = "8.0;9.0;9.0a"
+    XFORMERS_PATH = REPO_PATH.joinpath("submodules", "xformers")
+    cmd = ["pip", "install", "-e", XFORMERS_PATH]
+    subprocess.check_call(cmd, env=os_env)
diff --git a/tools/xformers/xformers.patch b/tools/xformers/xformers.patch
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..359f0355
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tools/xformers/xformers.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+From 1056e56f873fa6a097de3a7c1ceeeed66676ae82 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: Xu Zhao <xzhao9@meta.com>
+Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2024 19:19:46 -0500
+Subject: [PATCH] Link to cuda library
+
+---
+ setup.py | 2 ++
+ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
+
+diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
+index 6eaa50904..c804b4817 100644
+--- a/setup.py
++++ b/setup.py
+@@ -356,6 +356,8 @@ def get_flash_attention3_extensions(cuda_version: int, extra_compile_args):
+                     Path(flash_root) / "hopper",
+                 ]
+             ],
++            # Without this we get and error about cuTensorMapEncodeTiled not defined
++            libraries=["cuda"],
+         )
+     ]
+ 
\ No newline at end of file