RFR(M/L): 7115356: assert(!m->was_never_executed()) failed

[Nils Eliasson]

Hi,

Please review this change. It started out as a bug fix and grew with 
some refactoring of invocationCounter.cpp/hpp and its uses.

The original problem was that an assert in compilationPolicy failed 
because a value that was just set could not be observed. Some code paths 
read the composite counters a part at a time and may observe and write 
inconsistent values when several threads are using them. While removing 
a few unnecessary read and writes of the 'state' field, I noticed the 
state and Action was actually never used. I removed it all and came up 
with much simpler code.

Major refactorizations:
1) Rewritten invocationCounter methods to read entire counter, 
manipulate and then write entire counter.
2) Removed the state, and action - it was never used anywhere.
3) Moved invocation counter logic from simpleThresholdPolicy into 
invocationCounter.

bug: https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-7115356
webrev: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~neliasso/7115356/webrev.06

This code might affect the logCompilation and replay tools since it 
changes the output. I will test and fix that before submitting. I will 
also do some performance testing to make sure I haven't messed up the 
counters in any way.

Thanks,
Nils Eliasson
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