time: avoid garbage collector aliasing bug
Time is a tiny struct, so the compiler copies a Time by
copying each of the three fields.
The layout of a time on amd64 is [ptr int32 gap32 ptr].
Copying a Time onto a location that formerly held a pointer in the
second word changes only the low 32 bits, creating a different
but still plausible pointer. This confuses the garbage collector
when it appears in argument or result frames.
To avoid this problem, declare nsec as uintptr, so that there is
no gap on amd64 anymore, and therefore no partial pointers.
Note that rearranging the fields to put the int32 last still leaves
a gap - [ptr ptr int32 gap32] - because Time must have a total
size that is ptr-width aligned.
Update #5749
This CL is enough to fix the problem, but we should still do
the other actions listed in the initial report. We're not too far
from completely precise collection.
R=golang-dev, dvyukov, r
CC=golang-dev
https://golang.org/cl/
10504043