This is essentially to revoke the SPARC part of the solution to JDK-8016470, that addressed a problem in the x86 implementation, not present in the SPARC ditto.

The suggestion is instead to retain the idiom used and the interface (i.e. prefetch_copy_interval_in_bytes(), prefetch_scan_interval_in_bytes(), prefetch_fields_ahead(), allocate_prefetch_distance() and allocate_prefetch_style()) but make it private.

The rationale behind is as follows:
-- These prefetch settings (i.e. options and default values) are likely to change with different generations of the hardware, suggesting that we keep the hardware specific logic separated from the option handling (as much as possible), even when none or little logic is required.
-- We retain the idiom previously used, i.e. configuring a default value (-1) to mean we should provide a suitable default value (possibly by probing the hardware), allow the option/policy to be turned off (0) or accepting a command-line supplied value (>0).