diff --git a/arch/arm/Kconfig b/arch/arm/Kconfig
index 2fb7012c32463d3b71ca131305ea4df7c8fcd0cd..47718b4f2f7587770ad557e965b4a5ec1fc09403 100644
--- a/arch/arm/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/arm/Kconfig
@@ -1474,9 +1474,9 @@ config HIGHMEM
 	  If unsure, say n.
 
 config HIGHPTE
-	bool "Allocate 2nd-level pagetables from highmem" if EXPERT
+	bool "Allocate 2nd-level pagetables from highmem"
 	depends on HIGHMEM
-	default y
+	default n
 	help
 	  The VM uses one page of physical memory for each page table.
 	  For systems with a lot of processes, this can use a lot of
