[3.13] gh-128717: Stop-the-world when setting the recursion limit (GH-128741) (#128757)

[3.13] gh-128717: Stop-the-world when setting the recursion limit (GH-128741)
(cherry picked from commit f6c61bf2d7d8b66ccd9f16e723546bdcc251a3d0)

Co-authored-by: Peter Bierma <zintensitydev@gmail.com>