[jdk23] RFR: 8326820: Metadata artificially kept alive

[Stefan Karlsson]

On Thu, 27 Jun 2024 14:30:43 GMT, Axel Boldt-Christmas <aboldtch at openjdk.org> wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> This pull request contains a backport of commit [5909d541](https://github.com/openjdk/jdk/commit/5909d54147355dd7da5786ff39ead4c15816705c) from the [openjdk/jdk](https://git.openjdk.org/jdk) repository.
> 
> The commit being backported was authored by Axel Boldt-Christmas on 27 Jun 2024 and was reviewed by Erik Österlund, Stefan Karlsson and Coleen Phillimore.
> 
> Thanks!

Marked as reviewed by stefank (Reviewer).

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PR Review: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/19929#pullrequestreview-2145723893