gh-111964: Implement stop-the-world pauses#112471
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--disable-gilbuilds occasionally need to pause all but one thread. Some examples include:fork(), to ensure a consistent state for internal data structuresThis adds the following functions to implement global and per-interpreter pauses:
_PyRuntimeState_StopTheWorldand_PyRuntimeState_StartTheWorld_PyInterpreterState_StopTheWorldand_PyInterpreterState_StartTheWorldThese functions are no-ops outside of the
--disable-gilbuild.This also adds
_PyRWMutex, a "readers-writer" lock, which is used to serialize global stop-the-world pauses with per-interpreter pauses.--disable-gilbuilds) #111964