diff --git a/core/src/main/java/org/apache/spark/unsafe/map/BytesToBytesMap.java b/core/src/main/java/org/apache/spark/unsafe/map/BytesToBytesMap.java
index 5f3a4fcf4d585..b24eed3952fd6 100644
--- a/core/src/main/java/org/apache/spark/unsafe/map/BytesToBytesMap.java
+++ b/core/src/main/java/org/apache/spark/unsafe/map/BytesToBytesMap.java
@@ -92,9 +92,9 @@ public final class BytesToBytesMap {
 
   /**
    * The maximum number of keys that BytesToBytesMap supports. The hash table has to be
-   * power-of-2-sized and its backing Java array can contain at most (1 << 30) elements, since
-   * that's the largest power-of-2 that's less than Integer.MAX_VALUE. We need two long array
-   * entries per key, giving us a maximum capacity of (1 << 29).
+   * power-of-2-sized and its backing Java array can contain at most (1 &lt;&lt; 30) elements,
+   * since that's the largest power-of-2 that's less than Integer.MAX_VALUE. We need two long array
+   * entries per key, giving us a maximum capacity of (1 &lt;&lt; 29).
    */
   @VisibleForTesting
   static final int MAX_CAPACITY = (1 << 29);
diff --git a/examples/src/main/java/org/apache/spark/examples/ml/JavaDeveloperApiExample.java b/examples/src/main/java/org/apache/spark/examples/ml/JavaDeveloperApiExample.java
index 3f1fe900b0008..a377694507d29 100644
--- a/examples/src/main/java/org/apache/spark/examples/ml/JavaDeveloperApiExample.java
+++ b/examples/src/main/java/org/apache/spark/examples/ml/JavaDeveloperApiExample.java
@@ -124,7 +124,7 @@ public String uid() {
 
   /**
    * Param for max number of iterations
-   * <p/>
+   * <p>
    * NOTE: The usual way to add a parameter to a model or algorithm is to include:
    * - val myParamName: ParamType
    * - def getMyParamName
@@ -222,7 +222,7 @@ public Vector predictRaw(Vector features) {
   /**
    * Create a copy of the model.
    * The copy is shallow, except for the embedded paramMap, which gets a deep copy.
-   * <p/>
+   * <p>
    * This is used for the defaul implementation of [[transform()]].
    *
    * In Java, we have to make this method public since Java does not understand Scala's protected
diff --git a/examples/src/main/java/org/apache/spark/examples/streaming/JavaStatefulNetworkWordCount.java b/examples/src/main/java/org/apache/spark/examples/streaming/JavaStatefulNetworkWordCount.java
index 02f58f48b07ab..99b63a2590ae2 100644
--- a/examples/src/main/java/org/apache/spark/examples/streaming/JavaStatefulNetworkWordCount.java
+++ b/examples/src/main/java/org/apache/spark/examples/streaming/JavaStatefulNetworkWordCount.java
@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@
  * Usage: JavaStatefulNetworkWordCount <hostname> <port>
  * <hostname> and <port> describe the TCP server that Spark Streaming would connect to receive
  * data.
- * <p/>
+ * <p>
  * To run this on your local machine, you need to first run a Netcat server
  * `$ nc -lk 9999`
  * and then run the example
diff --git a/launcher/src/main/java/org/apache/spark/launcher/Main.java b/launcher/src/main/java/org/apache/spark/launcher/Main.java
index 62492f9baf3bb..a4e3acc674f36 100644
--- a/launcher/src/main/java/org/apache/spark/launcher/Main.java
+++ b/launcher/src/main/java/org/apache/spark/launcher/Main.java
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ class Main {
 
   /**
    * Usage: Main [class] [class args]
-   * <p/>
+   * <p>
    * This CLI works in two different modes:
    * <ul>
    *   <li>"spark-submit": if <i>class</i> is "org.apache.spark.deploy.SparkSubmit", the
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ class Main {
    *
    * This class works in tandem with the "bin/spark-class" script on Unix-like systems, and
    * "bin/spark-class2.cmd" batch script on Windows to execute the final command.
-   * <p/>
+   * <p>
    * On Unix-like systems, the output is a list of command arguments, separated by the NULL
    * character. On Windows, the output is a command line suitable for direct execution from the
    * script.
diff --git a/launcher/src/main/java/org/apache/spark/launcher/SparkClassCommandBuilder.java b/launcher/src/main/java/org/apache/spark/launcher/SparkClassCommandBuilder.java
index 5f95e2c74f902..931a24cfd4b1d 100644
--- a/launcher/src/main/java/org/apache/spark/launcher/SparkClassCommandBuilder.java
+++ b/launcher/src/main/java/org/apache/spark/launcher/SparkClassCommandBuilder.java
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@
 
 /**
  * Command builder for internal Spark classes.
- * <p/>
+ * <p>
  * This class handles building the command to launch all internal Spark classes except for
  * SparkSubmit (which is handled by {@link SparkSubmitCommandBuilder} class.
  */
diff --git a/launcher/src/main/java/org/apache/spark/launcher/SparkLauncher.java b/launcher/src/main/java/org/apache/spark/launcher/SparkLauncher.java
index 03c9358bc865d..57993405e47be 100644
--- a/launcher/src/main/java/org/apache/spark/launcher/SparkLauncher.java
+++ b/launcher/src/main/java/org/apache/spark/launcher/SparkLauncher.java
@@ -193,7 +193,7 @@ public SparkLauncher setMainClass(String mainClass) {
    * Adds a no-value argument to the Spark invocation. If the argument is known, this method
    * validates whether the argument is indeed a no-value argument, and throws an exception
    * otherwise.
-   * <p/>
+   * <p>
    * Use this method with caution. It is possible to create an invalid Spark command by passing
    * unknown arguments to this method, since those are allowed for forward compatibility.
    *
@@ -211,10 +211,10 @@ public SparkLauncher addSparkArg(String arg) {
    * Adds an argument with a value to the Spark invocation. If the argument name corresponds to
    * a known argument, the code validates that the argument actually expects a value, and throws
    * an exception otherwise.
-   * <p/>
+   * <p>
    * It is safe to add arguments modified by other methods in this class (such as
    * {@link #setMaster(String)} - the last invocation will be the one to take effect.
-   * <p/>
+   * <p>
    * Use this method with caution. It is possible to create an invalid Spark command by passing
    * unknown arguments to this method, since those are allowed for forward compatibility.
    *
diff --git a/launcher/src/main/java/org/apache/spark/launcher/SparkSubmitCommandBuilder.java b/launcher/src/main/java/org/apache/spark/launcher/SparkSubmitCommandBuilder.java
index 4f354cedee66f..fc87814a59ed5 100644
--- a/launcher/src/main/java/org/apache/spark/launcher/SparkSubmitCommandBuilder.java
+++ b/launcher/src/main/java/org/apache/spark/launcher/SparkSubmitCommandBuilder.java
@@ -25,11 +25,11 @@
 
 /**
  * Special command builder for handling a CLI invocation of SparkSubmit.
- * <p/>
+ * <p>
  * This builder adds command line parsing compatible with SparkSubmit. It handles setting
  * driver-side options and special parsing behavior needed for the special-casing certain internal
  * Spark applications.
- * <p/>
+ * <p>
  * This class has also some special features to aid launching pyspark.
  */
 class SparkSubmitCommandBuilder extends AbstractCommandBuilder {
diff --git a/launcher/src/main/java/org/apache/spark/launcher/SparkSubmitOptionParser.java b/launcher/src/main/java/org/apache/spark/launcher/SparkSubmitOptionParser.java
index 5779eb3fc0f78..6767cc5079649 100644
--- a/launcher/src/main/java/org/apache/spark/launcher/SparkSubmitOptionParser.java
+++ b/launcher/src/main/java/org/apache/spark/launcher/SparkSubmitOptionParser.java
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@
 
 /**
  * Parser for spark-submit command line options.
- * <p/>
+ * <p>
  * This class encapsulates the parsing code for spark-submit command line options, so that there
  * is a single list of options that needs to be maintained (well, sort of, but it makes it harder
  * to break things).
@@ -80,10 +80,10 @@ class SparkSubmitOptionParser {
    * This is the canonical list of spark-submit options. Each entry in the array contains the
    * different aliases for the same option; the first element of each entry is the "official"
    * name of the option, passed to {@link #handle(String, String)}.
-   * <p/>
+   * <p>
    * Options not listed here nor in the "switch" list below will result in a call to
    * {@link $#handleUnknown(String)}.
-   * <p/>
+   * <p>
    * These two arrays are visible for tests.
    */
   final String[][] opts = {
@@ -130,7 +130,7 @@ class SparkSubmitOptionParser {
 
   /**
    * Parse a list of spark-submit command line options.
-   * <p/>
+   * <p>
    * See SparkSubmitArguments.scala for a more formal description of available options.
    *
    * @throws IllegalArgumentException If an error is found during parsing.
diff --git a/unsafe/src/main/java/org/apache/spark/unsafe/memory/TaskMemoryManager.java b/unsafe/src/main/java/org/apache/spark/unsafe/memory/TaskMemoryManager.java
index 358bb37250158..c6e1e98e54bfa 100644
--- a/unsafe/src/main/java/org/apache/spark/unsafe/memory/TaskMemoryManager.java
+++ b/unsafe/src/main/java/org/apache/spark/unsafe/memory/TaskMemoryManager.java
@@ -60,7 +60,7 @@ public class TaskMemoryManager {
 
   /**
    * Maximum supported data page size (in bytes). In principle, the maximum addressable page size is
-   * (1L << OFFSET_BITS) bytes, which is 2+ petabytes. However, the on-heap allocator's maximum page
+   * (1L &lt;&lt; OFFSET_BITS) bytes, which is 2+ petabytes. However, the on-heap allocator's maximum page
    * size is limited by the maximum amount of data that can be stored in a  long[] array, which is
    * (2^32 - 1) * 8 bytes (or 16 gigabytes). Therefore, we cap this at 16 gigabytes.
    */