8365237: Remove unused SoftRefPolicy::_all_soft_refs_clear

[albertnetymk]

Trivial removing effectively dead code.

Test: tier1

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• JDK-8365237: Remove unused SoftRefPolicy::_all_soft_refs_clear (Enhancement - P4)

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• Thomas Schatzl (@tschatzl - Reviewer)
• Kim Barrett (@kimbarrett - Reviewer) Review applies to 7a8a54ad

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8365237: Remove unused SoftRefPolicy::_all_soft_refs_clear

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At the time when this comment was updated there had been 20 new commits pushed to the master branch:

• 16e461e: 8365122: G1: Minor clean up of G1SurvivorRegions
• 3c0eed8: 8364406: Remove LockingMode related code from aarch64
• f155f7d: 8364141: Remove LockingMode related code from x86
• ... and 17 more: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/compare/1fc0b01601af454a0e871afce8ae0c9da1358f13...master

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• 01: Full - Incremental (c8447f7a)
• 00: Full (7a8a54ad)

[tschatzl]

Remove as well, unnecessary.

[kimbarrett]

Other than the explicit empty ~VM_GC_Ooperation() that @tschatzl pointed
out, this looks good to me.

[tschatzl]

Ship it!

[albertnetymk]

Thanks for review.

/integrate

[openjdk]

Going to push as commit 95b7a8b.
Since your change was applied there have been 20 commits pushed to the master branch:

• 16e461e: 8365122: G1: Minor clean up of G1SurvivorRegions
• 3c0eed8: 8364406: Remove LockingMode related code from aarch64
• f155f7d: 8364141: Remove LockingMode related code from x86
• ... and 17 more: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/compare/1fc0b01601af454a0e871afce8ae0c9da1358f13...master

Your commit was automatically rebased without conflicts.

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@albertnetymk Pushed as commit 95b7a8b.

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