diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gt/intel_gtt.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gt/intel_gtt.c
index 1428e2b9075a2..b30e4478f0983 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gt/intel_gtt.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gt/intel_gtt.c
@@ -337,6 +337,18 @@ int setup_scratch_page(struct i915_address_space *vm)
 		if (size == I915_GTT_PAGE_SIZE_4K)
 			return -ENOMEM;
 
+		/*
+		 * If we need 64K minimum GTT pages for device local-memory,
+		 * like on XEHPSDV, then we need to fail the allocation here,
+		 * otherwise we can't safely support the insertion of
+		 * local-memory pages for this vm, since the HW expects the
+		 * correct physical alignment and size when the page-table is
+		 * operating in 64K GTT mode, which includes any scratch PTEs,
+		 * since userspace can still touch them.
+		 */
+		if (HAS_64K_PAGES(vm->i915))
+			return -ENOMEM;
+
 		size = I915_GTT_PAGE_SIZE_4K;
 	} while (1);
 }