runtime: fix check for pending GC work

When findRunnable considers running a fractional mark worker, it first
checks if there's any work to be done; if there isn't there's no point
in running the worker because it will just reschedule immediately.
However, currently findRunnable just checks work.full and
work.partial, whereas getfull can *also* draw work from m.currentwbuf.
As a result, findRunnable may not start a worker even though there
actually is work.

This problem manifests itself in occasional failures of the
test/init1.go test. This test is unusual because it performs a large
amount of allocation without executing any write barriers, which means
there's nothing to force the pointers in currentwbuf out to the
work.partial/full lists where findRunnable can see them.

This change fixes this problem by making findRunnable also check for a
currentwbuf. This aligns findRunnable with trygetfull's notion of
whether or not there's work.

Change-Id: Ic76d22b7b5d040bc4f58a6b5975e9217650e66c4
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/9299
Reviewed-by: Russ Cox <rsc@golang.org>
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