mm/slab: racy access/modify the slab color

Slab color isn't needed to be changed strictly.  Because locking for
changing slab color could cause more lock contention so this patch
implements racy access/modify the slab color.  This is a preparation
step to implement lockless allocation path when there is no free objects
in the kmem_cache.

Below is the result of concurrent allocation/free in slab allocation
benchmark made by Christoph a long time ago.  I make the output simpler.
The number shows cycle count during alloc/free respectively so less is
better.

  * Before
  Kmalloc N*alloc N*free(32): Average=365/806
  Kmalloc N*alloc N*free(64): Average=452/690
  Kmalloc N*alloc N*free(128): Average=736/886
  Kmalloc N*alloc N*free(256): Average=1167/985
  Kmalloc N*alloc N*free(512): Average=2088/1125
  Kmalloc N*alloc N*free(1024): Average=4115/1184
  Kmalloc N*alloc N*free(2048): Average=8451/1748
  Kmalloc N*alloc N*free(4096): Average=16024/2048

  * After
  Kmalloc N*alloc N*free(32): Average=355/750
  Kmalloc N*alloc N*free(64): Average=452/812
  Kmalloc N*alloc N*free(128): Average=559/1070
  Kmalloc N*alloc N*free(256): Average=1176/980
  Kmalloc N*alloc N*free(512): Average=1939/1189
  Kmalloc N*alloc N*free(1024): Average=3521/1278
  Kmalloc N*alloc N*free(2048): Average=7152/1838
  Kmalloc N*alloc N*free(4096): Average=13438/2013

It shows that contention is reduced for object size >= 1024 and
performance increases by roughly 15%.

Signed-off-by: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Jesper Dangaard Brouer <brouer@redhat.com>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

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