[8u] RFA for JDK-8169931: '8k class metaspace chunks misallocated from 4k chunk freelist'

[Muthusamy Chinnathambi]

Hi,

May I get the approval of backport of JDK-8169931: '8k class metaspace chunks misallocated from 4k chunk freelist'  to jdk8u.


JDK9 bug: https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8169931 
Jdk9 review thread: http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/hotspot-dev/2016-November/025291.html  
Jdk8 review threads: http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/hotspot-dev/2017-December/029611.html 
                     http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/hotspot-dev/2018-January/029677.html 
Webrev link: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~mchinnathamb/JDK-8169931/webrev.02/ 

Regards,
Muthusamy C