[jdk17u-dev] RFR: 8288302: Shenandoah: SIGSEGV in vm maybe related to jit compiling xerces

[Roland Westrelin]

This is a clean backport. This failure was reported by users on jdk 17.

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Commit messages:
 - Backport bf39b184ca8aabcc51dc6ea4eee046c69b278710

Changes: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk17u-dev/pull/837/files
 Webrev: https://webrevs.openjdk.org/?repo=jdk17u-dev&pr=837&range=00
  Issue: https://bugs.openjdk.org/browse/JDK-8288302
  Stats: 2 lines in 1 file changed: 1 ins; 0 del; 1 mod
  Patch: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk17u-dev/pull/837.diff
  Fetch: git fetch https://git.openjdk.org/jdk17u-dev pull/837/head:pull/837

PR: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk17u-dev/pull/837