**What does this PR do?**
This PR tweaks the `vm_push_frame` function to add an explicit compiler
fence (`atomic_signal_fence`) to ensure profilers that use signals
to interrupt applications (stackprof, vernier, pf2, Datadog profiler)
can safely sample from the signal handler.
This is a backport of #11036 to Ruby 3.2 .
**Motivation:**
The `vm_push_frame` was specifically tweaked in
https://github.com/ruby/ruby/pull/3296 to initialize the a frame
before updating the `cfp` pointer.
But since there's nothing stopping the compiler from reordering
the initialization of a frame (`*cfp =`) with the update of the cfp
pointer (`ec->cfp = cfp`) we've been hesitant to rely on this on
the Datadog profiler.
In practice, after some experimentation + talking to folks, this
reordering does not seem to happen.
But since modern compilers have a way for us to exactly tell them
not to do the reordering (`atomic_signal_fence`), this seems even
better.
I've actually extracted `vm_push_frame` into the "Compiler Explorer"
website, which you can use to see the assembly output of this function
across many compilers and architectures: https://godbolt.org/z/3oxd1446K
On that link you can observe two things across many compilers:
1. The compilers are not reordering the writes
2. The barrier does not change the generated assembly output
(== has no cost in practice)
**Additional Notes:**
The checks added in `configure.ac` define two new macros:
* `HAVE_STDATOMIC_H`
* `HAVE_DECL_ATOMIC_SIGNAL_FENCE`
Since Ruby generates an arch-specific `config.h` header with
these macros upon installation, this can be used by profilers
and other libraries to test if Ruby was compiled with the fence enabled.
**How to test the change?**
As I mentioned above, you can check https://godbolt.org/z/3oxd1446K
to confirm the compiled output of `vm_push_frame` does not change
in most compilers (at least all that I've checked on that site).