RFR: 8331398: G1: HRPrinter reclamation events should print the original region type

[Ivan Walulya]

On Tue, 30 Apr 2024 10:20:21 GMT, Thomas Schatzl <tschatzl at openjdk.org> wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
>    currently, the various reclamation events always print `FREE` as the region type in the event string because the methods are always called after freeing.
> 
> This is kind of useless information (obviously reclaimed regions are `FREE` after reclaiming), so this CR suggests to use the original type to understand what region has been reclaimed.
> 
> It helped at least me a bit when debugging crashes after some refinement changes.
> 
> This is based on PR#19013, so please have a look at it as well.
> 
> Testing: local compilation, local testing
> 
> Thanks,
>   Thomas

Marked as reviewed by iwalulya (Reviewer).

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PR Review: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/19017#pullrequestreview-2030962028