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Michael Anthony Knyszek abf8e355a8 runtime: use MADV_FREE_REUSABLE on darwin
Currently on darwin we use MADV_FREE, which unfortunately doesn't result
in a change in the process's RSS until pages actually get kicked out,
which the OS is free to do lazily (e.g. until it finds itself under
memory pressure).

To remedy this, we instead use MADV_FREE_REUSABLE which has similar
semantics, except that it also sets a reusable bit on each page so the
process's RSS gets reported more accurately. The one caveat is for every
time we call MADV_FREE_REUSABLE on a region we must call MADV_FREE_REUSE
to keep the kernel's accounting updated.

Also, because this change requires adding new constants that only exist
on darwin, it splits mem_bsd.go into mem_bsd.go and mem_darwin.go.

Fixes #29844.

Change-Id: Idb6421698511138a430807bcbbd1516cd57557c8
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/c/go/+/159117
Reviewed-by: Brad Fitzpatrick <bradfitz@golang.org>
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