RFR: Some more descriptive names, removed redundant asserts. Request for comments. [v2]

[Coleen Phillimore]

On Wed, 6 Apr 2022 00:36:44 GMT, Coleen Phillimore <coleenp at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> Also, there's an if statement already for chunk_available which the compiler shouldn't have trouble optimizing.  Otherwise we should refactor freeze_fast.
>> Tested locally with make test TEST=jdk/jdk/internal/vm/Continuation since only names.
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> Coleen Phillimore has updated the pull request incrementally with one additional commit since the last revision:
> 
>   Revert untemplatization

src/hotspot/share/runtime/continuation.cpp line 2074:

> 2072:   assert(chunk != nullptr, "");
> 2073: 
> 2074:   // Comment needed: Why would the tail chunk be empty? Why do you get the parent?

Here, can you explain what's happening in this function?

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PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/loom/pull/139