runtime: drop chan circular linked list in favor of circular buffer
The list elements are already being allocated out of a
single memory buffer. We can drop the Link* pointer
following and the memory it requires, replacing it with
index operations.
The change also keeps a channel from containing a pointer
back into its own allocation block, which would create a
cycle. Blocks involved in cycles are not guaranteed to be
finalized properly, and channels depend on finalizers to
free OS-level locks on some systems. The self-reference
was keeping channels from being garbage collected.
runtime-gdb.py will need to be updated in order to dump
the content of buffered channels with the new data structure.
Fixes #1676.
R=ken2, r
CC=golang-dev
https://golang.org/cl/
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