8279505: Update documentation for RETRY_COUNT and REPEAT_COUNT

[shipilev]

Clean backport to improve docs.

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• JDK-8279505: Update documentation for RETRY_COUNT and REPEAT_COUNT

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This backport pull request has now been updated with issue from the original commit.

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[shipilev]

Got the push approval.

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[openjdk]

Going to push as commit 8d7a6e5.
Since your change was applied there have been 8 commits pushed to the master branch:

• 75f8752: 8225559: assertion error at TransTypes.visitApply
• 9f97c82: 8276654: element-list order is non deterministic
• 6884635: 8279300: [arm32] SIGILL when running GetObjectSizeIntrinsicsTest
• 7f684c3: 8273682: Upgrade Jline to 3.20.0
• d716c2b: 8278758: runtime/BootstrapMethod/BSMCalledTwice.java fails with release VMs after JDK-8262134
• 6c0f974: 8262134: compiler/uncommontrap/TestDeoptOOM.java failed with "guarantee(false) failed: wrong number of expression stack elements during deopt"
• 832a570: 8269037: jsig/Testjsig.java doesn't have to be restricted to linux only
• a9b245b: 8269523: runtime/Safepoint/TestAbortOnVMOperationTimeout.java failed when expecting 'VM operation took too long'

Your commit was automatically rebased without conflicts.

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@shipilev Pushed as commit 8d7a6e5.

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