core: Merge malloc_trim patch

We've had multiple opportunities where Richard Mudgett's
malloc_trim patch has been useful. Let's get it
pushed up to gerrit and merged.

Since malloc_trim is only available in libc, an entry is
added to configure.ac to create a definition for
HAVE_MALLOC_TRIM.

Change-Id: Ia38308c550149d9d6eae4ca414a649957de9700c
(cherry picked from commit 40ab571e)