A lot of jck tests started to fail with

java.lang.ExceptionInInitializerError
at jdk.internal.vm.compiler@13-internal/org.graalvm.compiler.options.OptionKey.checkDescriptorExists(OptionKey.java:64)
at jdk.internal.vm.compiler@13-internal/org.graalvm.compiler.options.OptionKey.getValue(OptionKey.java:139)
at jdk.internal.vm.compiler@13-internal/org.graalvm.compiler.hotspot.HotSpotGraalCompilerFactory.initializeGraalCompilePolicyFields(HotSpotGraalCompilerFactory.java:91)
at jdk.internal.vm.compiler@13-internal/org.graalvm.compiler.hotspot.HotSpotGraalCompilerFactory.onSelection(HotSpotGraalCompilerFactory.java:76)
at jdk.internal.vm.ci/jdk.vm.ci.hotspot.HotSpotJVMCICompilerConfig.getCompilerFactory(HotSpotJVMCICompilerConfig.java:106)
at jdk.internal.vm.ci/jdk.vm.ci.hotspot.HotSpotJVMCIRuntime.<init>(HotSpotJVMCIRuntime.java:296)
at jdk.internal.vm.ci/jdk.vm.ci.hotspot.HotSpotJVMCIRuntime$DelayedInit.<clinit>(HotSpotJVMCIRuntime.java:79)
at jdk.internal.vm.ci/jdk.vm.ci.hotspot.HotSpotJVMCIRuntime.runtime(HotSpotJVMCIRuntime.java:95)
at jdk.internal.vm.ci/jdk.vm.ci.runtime.JVMCI.initializeRuntime(Native Method)
at jdk.internal.vm.ci/jdk.vm.ci.runtime.JVMCI.<clinit>(JVMCI.java:58)
Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException
at jdk.internal.vm.compiler@13-internal/org.graalvm.compiler.options.OptionKey$Lazy.<clinit>(OptionKey.java:91)

when running with with AOTed jdk.internal.vm.compiler in Graal as JIT mode.

This issues started to occur after JDK-8218074 "Update Graal" was integrated.