Can I please get a review of this test-only change which proposes to address 
intermittent failures in 
`test/jdk/java/io/Serializable/concurrentClassDescLookup/ConcurrentClassDescLookup.java`?

This addresses https://bugs.openjdk.org/browse/JDK-8222884. As noted in that 
issue, the test in its current form has a potential race. The test main thread 
launches 50 "successful lookup" tasks and 50 "failed lookup" tasks. Each task 
is a `Thread`. The test passes an `Object` instance shared by 50 of these tasks 
and each task when it starts execution in its `run()` method does a `wait()` on 
that `Object` instance. The test main thread then after launching 50 tasks, 
sleeps for a second (to let the 50 `Thread`s start execution and arrive at the 
`Object.wait()`) and then after waking up the main thread does a `notifyAll()` 
on that `Object` instance. In theory and likely in practice too, it's possible 
that (especially) for the last batch of 50 tasks (the "failing lookup" tasks), 
the `notifyAll()` might end up getting invoked before one or more task 
Thread(s) have actually done a `wait()`. That can then mean that one or more 
task `Thread`(s) will keep `wait()`ing indefinitely with no one 
 `notify()`ing the `Object` instance to proceed with the task execution.

The commit in this PR removes the use of `Object.wait()/notifyAll()` and 
instead uses a `CountdownLatch` to allow for a more deterministic barrier. The 
test continues to pass with this change. Additionally, this change was run 
against a CI setup, by Matthias, where it was previously failing 
intermittently. Matthias reports that it hasn't failed after this change.

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Commit messages:
 - 8222884: ConcurrentClassDescLookup.java times out intermittently

Changes: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/19659/files
  Webrev: https://webrevs.openjdk.org/?repo=jdk&pr=19659&range=00
  Issue: https://bugs.openjdk.org/browse/JDK-8222884
  Stats: 36 lines in 1 file changed: 7 ins; 7 del; 22 mod
  Patch: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/19659.diff
  Fetch: git fetch https://git.openjdk.org/jdk.git pull/19659/head:pull/19659

PR: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/19659

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