Reference chains for surviving live-heap samples via a bounded manual heap walk (PROF-15341) - #644

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Add repro/sweep tooling and chaos-harness build wiring for reference chains

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Implement reference chains for surviving live-heap samples

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Add C++ unit tests for reference-chain tracking

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Add Java integration tests and chaos/repro harness for reference chains

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Add reference-chains architecture and design docs

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Address reference-chains review findings

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Migrate ReferenceChainTrackingTest to the JfrEvents API

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