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Add clock_schedule(), a feature that allows realtime clock drivers to

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Add clock_schedule(), a feature that allows realtime clock drivers to
request that their clock_settime() methods be called at a given offset
from top-of-second. This adds a timeout_task to the rtc_instance so that
each clock can be separately added to taskqueue_thread with the scheduling
it prefers, instead of looping through all the clocks at once with a
single task on taskqueue_thread. If a driver doesn't call clock_schedule()
the default is the old behavior: clock_settime() is queued immediately.

The motivation behind this is that I was on the path of adding identical
code to a third RTC driver to figure out a delta to top-of-second and
sleep for that amount of time because writing the the RTC registers resets
the hardware's concept of top-of-second. (Sometimes it's not top-of-second,
some RTC clocks tick over a half second after you set their time registers.)
Worst-case would be to sleep for almost a full second, which is a rude thing
to do on a shared task queue thread.

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rS321744: Correct the predicates on which lockstat:::{thread,spin}-spin fire.
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