Currently, startTheWorld clears preemptoff for the current M before
starting the world. A few callers increment m.locks around
startTheWorld, presumably to prevent preemption any time during
starting the world. This is almost certainly pointless (none of the
other callers do this), but there's no harm in making startTheWorld
keep preemption disabled until it's all done, which definitely lets us
drop these m.locks manipulations.