Hi all, 

Please review this change to avoid CleanClassLoaderDataMetaspaces safepoint 
when there is nothing that can be cleaned up.

**Summary**
When transforming/redefining classes a previous version list is linked together 
in the InstanceKlass. The original class is added to this list if it is still 
used or shared. The difference between shared and used is not currently noted. 
This leads to a problem when doing concurrent class unloading, because during 
that we postpone some potential work to a safepoint (since we are not in one). 
This is the CleanClassLoaderDataMetaspaces and it is triggered by the 
ServiceThread if there is work to be done, for example if 
InstanceKlass::_has_previous_versions is true.

Since we currently does not differentiate between shared and "in use" we always 
set _has_previous_versions if anything is on this list. This together with the 
fact that shared previous versions should never be cleaned out leads to this 
safepoint being triggered after every concurrent class unloading even though 
there is nothing that can be cleaned out.

This can be avoided by making sure the _previous_versions list is only cleaned 
when there are non-shared classes on it. This change renames 
`_has_previous_versions` to `_clean_previous_versions` and only updates it if 
we have non-shared classes on the list.

**Testing**
* A lot of manual testing verifying that we do get the safepoint when we 
should. 
* Added new test to verify expected behavior by parsing the logs. The test uses 
JFR to trigger redefinition of some shared classes (when -Xshare:on).
* Mach5 run of new test and tier 1-3

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Commit messages:
 - Add test wih JFR
 - 8306929: Avoid CleanClassLoaderDataMetaspaces safepoints when previous 
versions are shared

Changes: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/13716/files
 Webrev: https://webrevs.openjdk.org/?repo=jdk&pr=13716&range=00
  Issue: https://bugs.openjdk.org/browse/JDK-8306929
  Stats: 139 lines in 6 files changed: 116 ins; 3 del; 20 mod
  Patch: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/13716.diff
  Fetch: git fetch https://git.openjdk.org/jdk.git pull/13716/head:pull/13716

PR: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/13716

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