threads(M10): per-thread fs.base — the TLS thread-pointer mechanism

Each thread gets its own x86_64 thread pointer (FS base) for user-space TLS.
Task.fs_base is restored on every context switch only when it changes (same
conditional-load discipline as CR3; architecture.setFsBase -> wrmsr
IA32_FS_BASE). New set_thread_pointer=44 syscall sets the caller's fs_base and
loads it now. The kernel never touches FS, so no swapgs complication.

The runtime lays a small per-thread TLS block at the top of each thread's stack
(self-pointer at %fs:0 + scratch) and the thread trampoline calls
set_thread_pointer before any user code — so every spawned thread has a private,
switch-stable thread pointer, reclaimed with the stack.

thread-test tls mode: two threads write unique markers to their own %fs:8 and,
after both wrote, read back — a shared fs.base would clobber one (cross-talk).

Deferred: the Zig threadlocal *compiler* layer (ELF variant-II PT_TLS + linker
sections + template copy) — high-uncertainty, no consumer today; this lands the
load-bearing per-thread fs.base it builds on. See docs/threading-plan.md M10.

Gate thread-tls PASS (3x); full guardrail 25/25; build + host tests clean.
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@@ -355,6 +355,14 @@ CASES = [
"timeout": 60,
"expect": r"DANOS-TEST-RESULT: PASS",
"fail": r"DANOS-TEST-RESULT: FAIL"},
# docs/threading-plan.md M10: per-thread fs.base — two threads keep private %fs:8 TLS
# slots across context switches (no cross-talk).
{"name": "thread-tls",
"smp": 4,
"timeout": 60,
"expect": r"DANOS-TEST-RESULT: PASS",
"fail": r"DANOS-TEST-RESULT: FAIL"},
# Process arguments: argv arrives on the SysV entry stack (argv[0] = the spawned
# name, argv[1..] = the system_spawn argument blob) and echoes back intact.
{"name": "args",