In gcMarkReachable, busy-wait for other cores to enter the interrupt handler and pause before scanning the GC core's stack or globals. Prevents data race where a running core relocates heap references to globals during mark phase.
The GC shouldn't try to interrupt other cores before they are started.
For example, it would be possible for the GC to run in a package
initializer (which is currently run on a single core). That would
suggest questionable program design, but it is something that should
work. So this commit makes sure the GC only tries to scan the stack of
other cores when those other cores have in fact started.
This commit adds support for a scheduler that runs a scheduler on all
available cores. It is meant to be used on baremetal systems with a
fixed number of cores, such as the RP2040.
The initial implementation adds support for multicore scheduling to the
riscv-qemu target as a convenient testing target. This means that this
new multicore scheduler is tested in CI, including a bunch of standard
library tests (`make tinygo-test-baremetal`). This should ensure the new
scheduler is reasonably well tested before trying to use it on
harder-to-debug targets like the RP2040.
Konstantin Sharlaimov
rdon-key
Ayke van Laethem