Adjust spin.c's spinlock emulation so that 0 is not a valid spinlock value.
We've had repeated troubles over the years with failures to initialize spinlocks correctly; see 6b93fcd1 for a recent example. Most of the time, on most platforms, such oversights can escape notice because all-zeroes is the expected initial content of an slock_t variable. The only platform we have where the initialized state of an slock_t isn't zeroes is HPPA, and that's practically gone in the wild. To make it easier to catch such errors without needing one of those, adjust the --disable-spinlocks code so that zero is not a valid value for an slock_t for it. In passing, remove a bunch of unnecessary #include's from spin.c; commit daa7527a removed all the intermodule coupling that made them necessary.
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