mm: adjust vm_committed_as_batch according to vm overcommit policy

When checking a performance change for will-it-scale scalability mmap test
[1], we found very high lock contention for spinlock of percpu counter
'vm_committed_as':

    94.14%     0.35%  [kernel.kallsyms]         [k] _raw_spin_lock_irqsave
    48.21% _raw_spin_lock_irqsave;percpu_counter_add_batch;__vm_enough_memory;mmap_region;do_mmap;
    45.91% _raw_spin_lock_irqsave;percpu_counter_add_batch;__do_munmap;

Actually this heavy lock contention is not always necessary.  The
'vm_committed_as' needs to be very precise when the strict
OVERCOMMIT_NEVER policy is set, which requires a rather small batch number
for the percpu counter.

So keep 'batch' number unchanged for strict OVERCOMMIT_NEVER policy, and
lift it to 64X for OVERCOMMIT_ALWAYS and OVERCOMMIT_GUESS policies.  Also
add a sysctl handler to adjust it when the policy is reconfigured.

Benchmark with the same testcase in [1] shows 53% improvement on a 8C/16T
desktop, and 2097%(20X) on a 4S/72C/144T server.  We tested with test
platforms in 0day (server, desktop and laptop), and 80%+ platforms shows
improvements with that test.  And whether it shows improvements depends on
if the test mmap size is bigger than the batch number computed.

And if the lift is 16X, 1/3 of the platforms will show improvements,
though it should help the mmap/unmap usage generally, as Michal Hocko
mentioned:

: I believe that there are non-synthetic worklaods which would benefit from
: a larger batch.  E.g.  large in memory databases which do large mmaps
: during startups from multiple threads.

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20200305062138.GI5972@shao2-debian/

Signed-off-by: Feng Tang <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <[email protected]>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <[email protected]>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <[email protected]>
Cc: Mel Gorman <[email protected]>
Cc: Qian Cai <[email protected]>
Cc: Kees Cook <[email protected]>
Cc: Andi Kleen <[email protected]>
Cc: Tim Chen <[email protected]>
Cc: Dave Hansen <[email protected]>
Cc: Huang Ying <[email protected]>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <[email protected]>
Cc: Dennis Zhou <[email protected]>
Cc: Haiyang Zhang <[email protected]>
Cc: kernel test robot <[email protected]>
Cc: "K. Y. Srinivasan" <[email protected]>
Cc: Tejun Heo <[email protected]>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>

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