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)
committerRussell King (Oracle) <rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk>
Tue, 2 Dec 2025 11:47:53 +0000 (11:47 +0000)
commitfedadc4137234c3d00c4785eeed3e747fe9036ae
tree0f8cae121c5967da1c2c86ae6393cae130465f41
parent256d97d3587b441630c345ab3d773a9e7dcd964b
ARM: 9461/1: Disable HIGHPTE on PREEMPT_RT kernels

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>
arch/arm/Kconfig