It includes speed optimizations for HANDLER READ by caching as much as possible in HANDLER OPEN
Other things:
- Added mysqld option --disable-thr-alarm to be able to benchmark things without thr_alarm
- Changed 'Locked' state to 'System lock' and 'Table lock' (these where used in the code but never shown to end user)
- Better error message if mysql_install_db.sh fails
- Moved handler function prototypes to sql_handler.h
- Remove not anymore used 'thd->locked' member


include/thr_alarm.h:
  Added my_disable_thr_alarm
include/thr_lock.h:
  Add new member to THR_LOCK_DATA to remember original lock type state. This is needed as thr_unlock() resets type to TL_UNLOCK.
mysql-test/include/check_no_concurrent_insert.inc:
  Locked -> Table lock
mysql-test/include/handler.inc:
  Locked -> Table lock
mysql-test/r/handler_innodb.result:
  Updated results for new tests
mysql-test/r/handler_myisam.result:
  Updated results for new tests
mysql-test/r/sp-threads.result:
  Locked -> Table lock
mysql-test/suite/binlog/t/binlog_stm_row.test:
  Locked -> Table lock
mysql-test/suite/funcs_1/datadict/processlist_val.inc:
  Locked -> Table lock
mysql-test/suite/pbxt/t/lock_multi.test:
  Locked -> Table lock
mysql-test/suite/sys_vars/r/concurrent_insert_func.result:
  Locked -> Table lock
mysql-test/suite/sys_vars/t/concurrent_insert_func.test:
  Locked -> Table lock
mysql-test/suite/sys_vars/t/delayed_insert_limit_func.test:
  Locked -> Table lock
mysql-test/suite/sys_vars/t/query_cache_wlock_invalidate_func.test:
  Locked -> Table lock
mysql-test/suite/sys_vars/t/sql_low_priority_updates_func.test:
  Locked -> Table lock
mysql-test/t/insert_notembedded.test:
  Locked -> Table lock
mysql-test/t/lock_multi.test:
  Locked -> Table lock
mysql-test/t/merge-big.test:
  Locked -> Table lock
mysql-test/t/multi_update.test:
  Locked -> Table lock
mysql-test/t/query_cache_28249.test:
  Locked -> Table lock
mysql-test/t/sp_notembedded.test:
  Locked -> Table lock
mysql-test/t/sp_sync.test:
  Locked -> Table lock
mysql-test/t/status.test:
  Locked -> Table lock
mysql-test/t/trigger_notembedded.test:
  Locked -> Table lock
mysys/thr_alarm.c:
  Added option to disable thr_alarm
mysys/thr_lock.c:
  Detect loops
scripts/mysql_install_db.sh:
  Give better error message if something goes wrong
sql/Makefile.am:
  Added sql_handler.h
sql/lock.cc:
  Split functions to allow one to cache value if store_lock() (for HANDLER functions).
  - Split mysql_lock_tables() into two functions, where first one allocates MYSQL_LOCK and other other one uses it.
  - Made get_lock_data() an external function.
  - Added argument to mysql_unlock_tables() to not free sql_lock.
  - Added argument to reset_lock_data() to reset lock structure to initial state (as after get_lock_data())
sql/mysql_priv.h:
  Moved handler function prototypes to sql_handler.h
  Added new lock functions.
sql/mysqld.cc:
  Added --thread-alarm startup option
sql/net_serv.cc:
  Don't call vio_blocking() if not needed
sql/sql_base.cc:
  include sql_handler.h
sql/sql_class.cc:
  include sql_handler.h
  Remove not anymore used 'thd->locked' member
sql/sql_class.h:
  Remove not anymore used 'thd->locked' member
sql/sql_db.cc:
  include sql_handler.h
sql/sql_delete.cc:
  include sql_handler.h
sql/sql_handler.cc:
  Rewrote all code to use SQL_HANDLER instead of TABLE_LIST (original interface)
  Rewrote mysql_ha_open() to cache all things from TABLE_LIST and items for field list, where etc.
  In mysql_ha_open() also cache MYSQL_LOCK structure from get_lock_data().
  Split functions into smaller sub functions (needed to be able to implement mysql_ha_read_prepare())
  Added mysql_ha_read_prepare() to allow one to prepare HANDLER READ.
sql/sql_handler.h:
  Interface to sql_handler.cc
sql/sql_parse.cc:
  include sql_handler.h
sql/sql_prepare.cc:
  Added mysql_test_handler_read(), prepare for HANDLER READ
sql/sql_rename.cc:
  include sql_handler.h
sql/sql_show.cc:
  Removed usage of thd->locked
sql/sql_table.cc:
  include sql_handler.h
sql/sql_trigger.cc:
  include sql_handler.h

In some cases the function make_cond_for_index() was mistaken
when detecting index only pushdown conditions for a table: 
a pushdown condition that was not index only could be marked
as such.
It happened because the procedure erroneously used the markers
for index only conditions that remained from the calls of
this function that extracted the index conditions for other 
tables.
Fixed by erasing index only markers as soon as they are need
anymore.

Lifted the limitation that hash join could not be used over 
varchar fields with non-binary collation.

- Merge with 5.3-main

- Fixes for the second fix: take into account case where we don't need to save/restore the scan.

Switch from "Disable identical key handling optimization when
  IndexConditionPushdown is used" approach
To 
 an approach where we save/restore index tuple and so can use index condition pushdown.

 - Address Monty's review feedback, portion 3

- Address Monty's review feedback, portion 2

- Better warnings

Analysis:
The assert failed because st_select_lex::print() was called for subqueries
as follows:

Item_subselect::print() ->
  subselect_single_select_engine::print() -> st_select_lex::print()

It was Item_subselect::fix_fields() that set the thd by calling set_thd(),
so when this print() was called before fix_fields(), subselect_engine::thd
was NULL.

Solution:
The patch makes all constructors of all subselect_engine classes to take
a THD parameter. The default subselect_single_select_engine engine is created
early during parse time, in the Item_subselect::init call, so we pass the
correct THD object already at this point.

- Address review feedback: change return type of RANGE_SEQ_IF::next()

pointers.

- Make Mrr_ordered_index_reader() save the rowid across scan interruptions

Also
- Fix compiler warning for setup_buffer_sizes()
- Add commented key_copy/key_restore for better handling of a similar issue
  with index record being destroyed by scan interruption (which causes 
  incorrect evaluation of pushed index condition later on).

Fixed compiler warning

mysql-test/r/named_pipe.result:
  Fixed test results for windows builds
mysql-test/r/shm.result:
  Fixed test results for windows builds
sql/item_cmpfunc.cc:
  Fixed compiler warning about uninitialized "first"

Problem : mtr reports test failure because it sees
[ERROR] mysqld got exception 0x80000003 ;
in the .err file

The exception comes from DBUG_EXECUTE_IF (.. abort())

Fix:  use DBUG_ABORT instead of abort() - it does not throw 
any exceptions.

The reason for failure is that DBUG_EXECUTE_IF in mi_open()
only worked for Unix-formatted file names, due to strstr(name, "/crashed")

The fix change strstr() above to strstr(name, "crashed"), to it can work with 
Windows file names as well.

 
Reason: inconsistent compilation, federatedx is compiled without SAFEMALLOC
flag, while anything else is compiled with SAFEMALLOC.

As a consequence, my_hash_init used inside federatedx initialization does not
provide correct caller info parameters (file, line) , so they are initialized with 
whatever is on stack. When info about allocated memory is output in
COM_DEBUG command, the server crashes trying to output string starting at
0xcccccccccccccccc.

The fix is to remove SAFEMALLOC  preprocessor flags 
from every CMakeLists.txt, except the top-level one.

Also, SAFEMALLOC is not defined by default now, instead
there is WITH_DEBUG_FULL CMake option which adds 
-DSAFEMALLOC to C and C++ flags in debug compilation. 
This option is off by  default, because 
1) Debug C runtime already has heap debugging builtin with 
 overwrite and leak detection
2)safemalloc considerably slows down the tests.


Note also  that 
- SAFEMALLOC is gone  in MySQL5.5
- On Windows, heap related overflows can also be found using free pageheap utility
(that is also part of application verifier). This is even more efficient if there are no other layers 
on top of Windows heap allocator, e.g  it is most efficient with release version.

- Fixed problem with oqgraph and 'make dist'

Note that after this merge we have a problem show in join_outer where we examine too many rows in one specific case (related to BUG#57024).
This will be fixed when mwl#128 is merged into 5.3.

- Moved end_pagecache() to after maria_close()
- Flush page cache before closing files (in maria_pack)
Fixed test suite failure for PBXT

mysql-test/suite/pbxt/r/select.result:
  We mask out the 'rows' column because it may differ from run to run
mysql-test/suite/pbxt/t/select.test:
  We mask out the 'rows' column because it may differ from run to run
storage/maria/maria_chk.c:
  Moved end_pagecache() to after maria_close() to not trigger end-consistency testing of pagecache.
storage/maria/maria_pack.c:
  Moved end_pagecache() to after maria_close() to not trigger end-consistency testing of pagecache.
  flush page cache before closing files.

The assert removed because it do not take into account case when previous and this buffers used for first time but previous buffer was not sent to disk yet (i.e. previous buffer was never sent to disk yet).