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madvise() away metadata for drained CPUs.

When we drain (reclaim) inactive CPUs, we hand back all of the memory
from its freelists into the transfer cache; however, the metadata
keeping track of those freelists remains. When we have many drained CPUs
in a row, and their metadata (which is contiguous) span an entire
hugepage, we madvise() away that hugepage if the flag is on. This should
save a little more RAM yet, on top of the existing draining.

We only madvise() on hugepage boundaries, so that we do not tear
hugepages and cause more TLB pressure.

When we drain (reclaim) inactive CPUs, we hand back all of the memory
from its freelists into the transfer cache; however, the metadata
keeping track of those freelists remains. When we have many drained CPUs
in a row, and their metadata (which is contiguous) span an entire
hugepage, we madvise() away that hugepage if the flag is on. This should
save a little more RAM yet, on top of the existing draining.

We only madvise() on hugepage boundaries, so that we do not tear
hugepages and cause more TLB pressure.

PiperOrigin-RevId: 960253910
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