RFR (XS): 6661889: thread id on Linux is inconsistent in error and log outputs

[Jeremy Manson]

David, can you review/sponsor this, per our conversation of last week?

It fixes an issue where, on Linux, some of the Hotspot logging output
identifies threads by pthread_id, and some of it identifies threads by
kernel-level TID.  This happened because Hotspot calls into two different
APIs that provide the thread ID, and developers seem to have picked which
one they call at random.

The CR makes these APIs consistently use the kernel-level TID, and makes
one of the APIs a thin shim over the other.

Conversation:
http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/hotspot-runtime-dev/2015-July/015507.html
Bug: https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-6661889
Webrev: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~jmanson/6661889/webrev.01/

Jeremy
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