RFR: 8273916: Remove 'special' ranking [v4]

[David Holmes]

On Tue, 21 Sep 2021 23:47:41 GMT, Coleen Phillimore <coleenp at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> This change removes the special ranking and folds it into nosafepoint.  You have to look at commit #3 to see this actual part of the change that doesn't include JDK-8273915.
>> This passes tier1-6 also.
>
> Coleen Phillimore has updated the pull request incrementally with one additional commit since the last revision:
> 
>   Remove special comment.

Hi Coleen,

Thanks again for the offlist discussion. Sorry it took me so long to "get it".

Cheers,
David

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Marked as reviewed by dholmes (Reviewer).

PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/5563