malloc, fileservice, metric: cherry-pick changes to 1.2

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What type of PR is this?

• [ ] API-change
• [ ] BUG
• [x] Improvement
• [ ] Documentation
• [ ] Feature
• [ ] Test and CI
• [ ] Code Refactoring

Which issue(s) this PR fixes:

issue #17130 #17151 #17174 #16661 #16745

What this PR does / why we need it:

port changes to 1.2