RFR: 8364434: Inconsistent BufferedContext state after GC

[Laurent Bourgès]

On Thu, 31 Jul 2025 13:31:49 GMT, Nikita Gubarkov <ngubarkov at openjdk.org> wrote:

> For "true" null objects, reset the ref itself to null. Non-null ref with null content means that the object was GC'ed. GC'ed state always behaves as not-equal to the new one, causing corresponding ops to be written into RQ.
> 
> Although I could not find practical scenarios where refs other than `validPaintRef` could cause problems, this is generally fragile and potentially problematic for any state object kept in weak ref. Therefore I changed the usage of all weak refs in the same way.

LGTM, not a reviewer

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PR Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/26576#issuecomment-3148522637