runtime.GC() is intentionally very weakly specified. However, it is so
weakly specified that it's difficult to know that it's being used
correctly for its one intended use case: to ensure garbage collection
has run in a test that is garbage-sensitive. In particular, it is
unclear whether it is synchronous or asynchronous. In the old STW
collector this was essentially self-evident; short of queuing up a
garbage collection to run later, it had to be synchronous. However,
with the concurrent collector, there's evidence that people are
inferring that it may be asynchronous (e.g., issue #10986), as this is
both unclear in the documentation and possible in the implementation.

In fact, runtime.GC() runs a fully synchronous STW collection. We
probably don't want to commit to this exact behavior. But we can
commit to the essential property that tests rely on: that runtime.GC()
does not return until the GC has finished.

Change-Id: Ifc3045a505e1898ecdbe32c1f7e80e2e9ffacb5b
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/10488Reviewed-by: Keith Randall <khr@golang.org>
Reviewed-by: Rick Hudson <rlh@golang.org>