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SA: CollectedHeap provides broken implementation for used() and capacity()

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        The CollectedHeap class provides concrete (broken) implementations for used() and capacity(). I propose that we make these functions abstract to force the sub classes to provide a correct implementation.

        This was found while running serviceability/sa/TestHeapDumpForLargeArray.java on an experimental implementation of heap dumping in ZGC.

        ZGC didn't provide a ZCollectedHeap.used() function and CollectedHeap.used() was used instead at:
                // Check weather we should dump the heap as segments
                useSegmentedHeapDump = vm.getUniverse().heap().used() > HPROF_SEGMENTED_HEAP_DUMP_THRESHOLD;

        Because of this we incorrectly did not use segmented heap dumps, and therefore overflowed later in the code.

              stefank Stefan Karlsson
              stefank Stefan Karlsson
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