mm/page_alloc: treat RT tasks similar to __GFP_HIGH
RT tasks are allowed to dip below the min reserve but ALLOC_HARDER is typically combined with ALLOC_MIN_RESERVE so RT tasks are a little unusual. While there is some justification for allowing RT tasks access to memory reserves, there is a strong chance that a RT task that is also under memory pressure is at risk of missing deadlines anyway. Relax how much reserves an RT task can access by treating it the same as __GFP_HIGH allocations. Note that in a future kernel release that the RT special casing will be removed. Hard realtime tasks should be locking down resources in advance and ensuring enough memory is available. Even a soft-realtime task like audio or video live decoding which cannot jitter should be allocating both memory and any disk space required up-front before the recording starts instead of relying on reserves. At best, reserve access will only delay the problem by a very short interval. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230113111217.14134-3-mgorman@techsingularity.netSigned-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org> Cc: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de> Cc: Thierry Reding <thierry.reding@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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