Use atomic ops to hand out pages to scan in parallel scan.

Use atomic ops to hand out pages to scan in parallel scan.

With a lot of CPUs, the spinlock that protects the current scan location
in a parallel scan can become a bottleneck. Use an atomic fetch-and-add
instruction instead.

David Rowley

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