mm: memcg/slab: pre-allocate obj_cgroups for slab caches with SLAB_ACCOUNT

In general it's unknown in advance if a slab page will contain accounted
objects or not.  In order to avoid memory waste, an obj_cgroup vector is
allocated dynamically when a need to account of a new object arises.  Such
approach is memory efficient, but requires an expensive cmpxchg() to set
up the memcg/objcgs pointer, because an allocation can race with a
different allocation on another cpu.

But in some common cases it's known for sure that a slab page will contain
accounted objects: if the page belongs to a slab cache with a SLAB_ACCOUNT
flag set.  It includes such popular objects like vm_area_struct, anon_vma,
task_struct, etc.

In such cases we can pre-allocate the objcgs vector and simple assign it
to the page without any atomic operations, because at this early stage the
page is not visible to anyone else.

A very simplistic benchmark (allocating 10000000 64-bytes objects in a
row) shows ~15% win.  In the real life it seems that most workloads are
not very sensitive to the speed of (accounted) slab allocations.

[[email protected]: open-code set_page_objcgs() and add some comments, by Johannes]
  Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
[[email protected]: fix it for mm-slub-call-account_slab_page-after-slab-page-initialization-fix.patch]

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Roman Gushchin <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Shakeel Butt <[email protected]>
Cc: Michal Hocko <[email protected]>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>

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