Integrated: 8329470: Remove obsolete CDS SharedStrings tests

[Ioi Lam]

On Tue, 2 Apr 2024 03:27:14 GMT, Ioi Lam <iklam at openjdk.org> wrote:

> These tests are quite time consuming. Removing them will speed up the CDS tests cycle.
> 
> [1] The LockSharedStrings.java test is obsolete. The archived strings used to be in its own "special" G1 region and we needed a test to check if locking objects in this region is working properly. Today all archived heap objects are stored in regular G1 regions. This test is no longer needed.
> 
> [2] During CDS dump time, we no longer allocate extra copies of the archived heap objects in the actual Java heap. So we can removed the portion of SharedStringsStress.java that tests for "an extra copy of these objects are allocated".

This pull request has now been integrated.

Changeset: 80201830
Author:    Ioi Lam <iklam at openjdk.org>
URL:       https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/commit/802018306f6c06815c4706e711eebd0892c4657a
Stats:     253 lines in 4 files changed: 5 ins; 241 del; 7 mod

8329470: Remove obsolete CDS SharedStrings tests

Reviewed-by: ccheung

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PR: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/18573