RFR: 8344270: Update tier1_common and hotspot_misc groups to better organize hotspot non-component tests

[David Holmes]

On Mon, 19 May 2025 21:00:27 GMT, Leonid Mesnik <lmesnik at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> test/hotspot/jtreg/TEST.groups line 36:
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>>> 34: 
>>> 35: hotspot_all = \
>>> 36:   -:hotspot_resourcehogs \
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>> When "all" was defined it was specifically intended to be all. If you want all-but-something then you define a group that is all-but -something. I don't know if these groups even get used regularly by anyone.
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> There is a problem with resource_hogs, it is a specific group that might affect any other tests. It is not safe to execute :hotspot_resourcehogs with any other tests. I think that we don't have this problem know or we might have just rare intermittent failures/timeouts of random tests. 
> Do we need any groups that are potentially unsafe at all? I don't think so and consider these tests like '/manually' that should be automatically ignored .

It is up to the people running "all" (see in particular JDK-8323515) to decide what makes sense, IMO. If we are running "all" and have an issue then we should change what we run.

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PR Review Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/25070#discussion_r2096721722