svn merge -c 1483974 FIXES: MAPREDUCE-4927. Historyserver 500 error due to NPE when accessing specific counters page for failed job. Contributed by Ashwin Shankar


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Merge remote branch 'origin/branch-0.23' into branch-0.23-gd
Merge remote branch 'origin/branch-0.23-gd' into fb-HADOOP-9166-branch-0.23-gd