8371889: JFR: Deadlock in ThrowableTracer

[rkennke]

This change initializes the event configurations (known as event handlers in earlier JDKs) early, in order to avoid potential deadlocks (see description in the issue).

JDK 21 is the last JDK where this is relevant, that code has been completely reworked in JDK 22 (e.g. JDK-8319374).

Testing:

• jdk/jfr
• tier1

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Issue

• JDK-8371889: JFR: Deadlock in ThrowableTracer (Bug - P3 - Requested)

Reviewers

• Erik Gahlin (@egahlin - Committer)

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