HDFS-5657. race condition causes writeback state error in NFS gateway. Contributed by Brandon Li

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HDFS-5634. Allow BlockReaderLocal to switch between checksumming and not (cmccabe)

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Move HDFS-5538, HDFS-5545, HDFS-5536, HDFS-5312, and HDFS-5629 from trunk to 2.4.0 section.

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MAPREDUCE-5197. Add a service for checkpointing task state.
Contributed by Carlo Curino


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YARN-1028. Added FailoverProxyProvider capability to ResourceManager to help with RM failover. Contributed by Karthik Kambatla.


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MAPREDUCE-5189. Add policies and wiring to respond to preemption requests
from YARN. Contributed by Carlo Curino.


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MAPREDUCE-5687. Fixed failure in TestYARNRunner caused by YARN-1446. Contributed by Jian He.


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Merge remote-tracking branch: upstream/trunk