Integrated: 8327238: Remove MetadataAllocationFailALot* develop flags

[Thomas Schatzl]

On Wed, 6 Mar 2024 09:29:58 GMT, Thomas Schatzl <tschatzl at openjdk.org> wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
>   please review this trivial removal of the `MetadataFailAlot` flags; one of them,
> `MetadataAllocationFailALotInterval` is unused anyway, and the other `MetadataAllocationFailALot` only prevents the attempt to retry metadata allocation in the VM operation.
> 
> This functionality does not seem to stress metadata allocation failure at all, just execution of the metadata VM operation, so I decided to just drop the second flag as well.
> 
> I considered keeping it maybe as `MetadataAllocationFailRetry` or something, but decided against it since it does not seem interesting to test. However I can at reviewer's request do that.
> 
> Testing: local compilation, gha, grepping hotspot tests/hotspot sources
> 
> Thanks,
>   Thomas

This pull request has now been integrated.

Changeset: 784f11c3
Author:    Thomas Schatzl <tschatzl at openjdk.org>
URL:       https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/commit/784f11c35d7f8646c7354c756ac8801a3d685874
Stats:     12 lines in 2 files changed: 0 ins; 9 del; 3 mod

8327238: Remove MetadataAllocationFailALot* develop flags

Reviewed-by: gli, ayang

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PR: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/18133