RFR: 8306950: [REDO] JDK-8305252 make_method_handle_intrinsic may call java code under a lock [v2]

[David Holmes]

On Thu, 27 Apr 2023 01:42:23 GMT, Coleen Phillimore <coleenp at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> This change redoes the intrinsic method table change to not hold a lock while calling make_method_handle_intrinsic.  The first commit is the original patch and the second is the fix to the bug it caused.
>> The Atomic operations might not be needed.
>> Tested with tier1-7, where tests in multiple tiers were regularly failing.
>
> Coleen Phillimore has updated the pull request incrementally with one additional commit since the last revision:
> 
>   Remove Atomics and improve comments, thanks David.

Re-do looks good. Sorry we missed the issue in the initial review.

Thanks.

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Marked as reviewed by dholmes (Reviewer).

PR Review: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/13681#pullrequestreview-1403216228