merged from 5.6:
Bug#14521864: MYSQL 5.1 TO 5.5 BUGS PARTITIONING
Bug#16589511: MYSQL_UPGRADE FAILS TO WRITE OUT ENTIRE ALTER TABLE ... ALGORITHM= ... STATEMENT
Bug#16274455: CAN NOT ACESS PARTITIONED TABLES WHEN DOWNGRADED FROM 5.6.11 TO 5.6.10

plus minor changes from 5.6, mainly comments