]> git.ipfire.org Git - thirdparty/kernel/stable.git/commitdiff
ARM: 9461/1: Disable HIGHPTE on PREEMPT_RT kernels
authorSebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Tue, 11 Nov 2025 15:54:37 +0000 (16:54 +0100)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Mon, 19 Jan 2026 12:12:09 +0000 (13:12 +0100)
[ Upstream commit fedadc4137234c3d00c4785eeed3e747fe9036ae ]

gup_pgd_range() is invoked with disabled interrupts and invokes
__kmap_local_page_prot() via pte_offset_map(), gup_p4d_range().
With HIGHPTE enabled, __kmap_local_page_prot() invokes kmap_high_get()
which uses a spinlock_t via lock_kmap_any(). This leads to an
sleeping-while-atomic error on PREEMPT_RT because spinlock_t becomes a
sleeping lock and must not be acquired in atomic context.

The loop in map_new_virtual() uses wait_queue_head_t for wake up which
also is using a spinlock_t.

Since HIGHPTE is rarely needed at all, turn it off for PREEMPT_RT
to allow the use of get_user_pages_fast().

[arnd: rework patch to turn off HIGHPTE instead of HAVE_PAST_GUP]

Co-developed-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Acked-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Russell King (Oracle) <rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
arch/arm/Kconfig

index 335308aff6ce0a200982044316a3aeaf9ae03dff..05fc9c6ee8c5be7c880a1e774261608dd0a955e7 100644 (file)
@@ -1513,7 +1513,7 @@ config HIGHMEM
 
 config HIGHPTE
        bool "Allocate 2nd-level pagetables from highmem" if EXPERT
-       depends on HIGHMEM
+       depends on HIGHMEM && !PREEMPT_RT
        default y
        help
          The VM uses one page of physical memory for each page table.