There are a number of warnings generated in a normal, successful build right now. They're mostly Java unchecked cast warnings, which can be suppressed. But there's a grab bag of other Scala language warnings and so on that can all be easily fixed. The forthcoming PR fixes about 90% of the build warnings I see now.

Author: Sean Owen <sowen@cloudera.com>

Closes #3157 from srowen/SPARK-4297 and squashes the following commits:

8c9e469 [Sean Owen] Suppress unchecked cast warnings, and several other build warning fixes