runtime: track background scan work credit

This tracks scan work done by background GC in a global pool. Mutator
assists will draw on this credit to avoid doing work when background
GC is staying ahead.

Unlike the other GC controller tracking variables, this will be both
written and read throughout the cycle. Hence, we can't arbitrarily
delay updates like we can for scan work and bytes marked. However, we
still want to minimize contention, so this global credit pool is
allowed some error from the "true" amount of credit. Background GC
accumulates credit locally up to a limit and only then flushes to the
global pool. Similarly, mutator assists will draw from the credit pool
in batches.

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Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/8834
Reviewed-by: Rick Hudson <rlh@golang.org>
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