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If split page table lock for PTE tables is enabled (CONFIG_SPLIT_PTLOCK_CPUS
<=NR_CPUS) pgtable_page_ctor() leads to non-atomic allocation for ptlock with
a spinlock held, resulting in:

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WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 466 at kernel/locking/lockdep.c:2742 lockdep_trace_alloc+0xd8/0xf4()
DEBUG_LOCKS_WARN_ON(irqs_disabled_flags(flags))
Modules linked in:
CPU: 0 PID: 466 Comm: dma0chan0-copy0 Not tainted 3.16.0-3d47efb-clean-pl330-dma_test-ve-a15-a32-slr-m
c-on-3+ #55
[<80014748>] (unwind_backtrace) from [<80011640>] (show_stack+0x10/0x14)
[<80011640>] (show_stack) from [<802bf864>] (dump_stack+0x80/0xb4)
[<802bf864>] (dump_stack) from [<8002385c>] (warn_slowpath_common+0x64/0x88)
[<8002385c>] (warn_slowpath_common) from [<80023914>] (warn_slowpath_fmt+0x30/0x40)
[<80023914>] (warn_slowpath_fmt) from [<8005d818>] (lockdep_trace_alloc+0xd8/0xf4)
[<8005d818>] (lockdep_trace_alloc) from [<800d3d78>] (kmem_cache_alloc+0x24/0x144)
[<800d3d78>] (kmem_cache_alloc) from [<800bfae4>] (ptlock_alloc+0x18/0x2c)
[<800bfae4>] (ptlock_alloc) from [<802b1ec0>] (arm_smmu_handle_mapping+0x4c0/0x690)
[<802b1ec0>] (arm_smmu_handle_mapping) from [<802b0cd8>] (iommu_map+0xe0/0x148)
[<802b0cd8>] (iommu_map) from [<80019098>] (arm_coherent_iommu_map_page+0x160/0x278)
[<80019098>] (arm_coherent_iommu_map_page) from [<801f4d78>] (dmatest_func+0x60c/0x1098)
[<801f4d78>] (dmatest_func) from [<8003f8ac>] (kthread+0xcc/0xe8)
[<8003f8ac>] (kthread) from [<8000e868>] (ret_from_fork+0x14/0x2c)
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Split page tables lock is not used in the driver. In fact, page tables are
guarded with domain lock, so remove calls to pgtable_page_{c,d}tor().

Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Vladimir Murzin <vladimir.murzin@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>