RFR: 8343218: Add option to disable allocating interface and abstract classes in non-class metaspace

[Coleen Phillimore]

On Thu, 31 Jul 2025 18:13:30 GMT, Coleen Phillimore <coleenp at openjdk.org> wrote:

> This change introduces a diagnostic flag to disable the change to allocate interface and abstract Klass metadata in the non-class metaspace.  Testing for JDK 25 has completed with this feature in place, but there may be cases where we should disable this.  A future change will be to remove this code.
> Tested with tier1-4 with the flag off, and 1-4 with the flag on.

Okay, I fixed the titles and will discuss with @vnkozlov and @TobiHartmann next week about getting this into JDK 25 or not.

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PR Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/26579#issuecomment-3144862351