[GR-55243] [GR-56816] [GR-56859] [GR-56863] [GR-56861] [GR-56855] [GR-56883] Backport to 23.1: Improve serial GC heap verification and other GC-related changes.

[luneo7]

Backports coming from vm-23.1.5, all applied cleanly:

1 - [GR-53407] Optionally ignore OutOfMemoryErrors while in VM-internal code.
2 - Don't treat yellow-zone code as VM-internal code.
3 - [GR-55243] Prevent that large array allocations in VM-internal code trigger OutOfMemoryErrors.
4 - [GR-56816] Improve serial GC heap verification.
5 - [GR-56863] [GR-56859] Fix serial GC collection count and time so that…
6 - [GR-56861] Split CommittedMemoryProvider.
7 - [GR-56816] Cleanups.
8 - [GR-56816] Add option VerifyDuringGC.
9 - [GR-56816] Resolve conflicts.
10 - [GR-56883] Add FeatureHandler.containsFeature().

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[jerboaa]

This is probably best merged after the 23.1.6 update is tagged.

[luneo7]

Yeah, also singed the OCA, just waiting for verification

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[zakkak]

@luneo7 thank you for the contribution.

Since we plan to backport all changes from vm-23.1.5 I created #41 which brings all the changes in one go.
Unfortunately the OCA job says that "OCA check failed due to more than 250 commits in PR" so we might end up needing to break it in more PRs (will have to check with the GraalVM team).

In any case, since vm-23.1.5 contains ~600 more commits than this repository I don't think it is viable to do one backport per bug/feature which we would normally do like you do in this PR. As a result I am going to close this PR in favor of #41 or the potential smaller ones (still in batches) that we will need to create.

If anything changes I will re-open this. Thanks again.

[zakkak]

Hi @luneo7 , if you are still interested in contributing backports you can have a look at #37. Just comment in that issue if you plan to work on one of the patch batches to avoid duplicating effort. Thanks