Revert "Removing start and stop region operation to allow for QA testing to proceed"

This reverts commit 05d435c2e0097498cc7fdb84b37d5673d4bd816a.
HBASE-12565 Race condition in HRegion.batchMutate() causes partial data to be written when region closes
increment version to 0.98.0-hdp2.1.5-splice1.0.2