attilio 6fcea2407c Simplify the adaptive spinning algorithm in rwlock and mutex:
currently, before to spin the turnstile spinlock is acquired and the
waiters flag is set.
This is not strictly necessary, so just spin before to acquire the
spinlock and to set the flags.
This will simplify a lot other functions too, as now we have the waiters
flag set only if there are actually waiters.
This should make wakeup/sleeping couplet faster under intensive mutex
workload.
This also fixes a bug in rw_try_upgrade() in the adaptive case, where
turnstile_lookup() will recurse on the ts_lock lock that will never be
really released [1].

[1] Reported by: jeff with Nokia help
Tested by: pho, kris (earlier, bugged version of rwlock part)
Discussed with: jhb [2], jeff
MFC after: 1 week

[2] John had a similar patch about 6.x and/or 7.x about mutexes probabilly
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