core: add "gf_ref_t" for common refcounting structures

Checks for compiler supported atomic operations comes from client_t.h.

An example usage of this change can be found in adding reference
counting to "struct auth_cache_entry" in http://review.gluster.org/11023

Basic usage looks like this:

   #include "refcount.h"

   struct my_struct {
       GF_REF_DECL;
       ... /* more members */
   }

   void my_destructor (void *data)
   {
       struct my_struct *my_ptr = (struct my_struct *) data;

       ... /* do some more cleanups */
       GF_FREE (my_ptr);
   }

   void init_ptr (struct parent *parent)
   {
       struct my_struct *my_ptr = malloc (sizeof (struct my_struct));

       GF_REF_INIT (my_ptr, my_destructor); /* refcount is set to 1 */

       ... /* my_ptr probably gets added to some parent structure */
       parent_add_ptr (parent, my_ptr);
   }

   void do_something (struct parent *parent)
   {
       struct my_struct *my_ptr = NULL;

       /* likely need to lock parent, depends on its access pattern */
       my_ptr = parent_remove_first_ptr (parent);
       /* unlock parent */

       ... /* do something */

       GF_REF_PUT (my_ptr); /* calls my_destructor on refcount = 0 */
   }

URL: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.file-systems.gluster.devel/11202
Change-Id: Idb98a5861a44c31676108ed8876db12c320912ef
BUG: 1228157
Signed-off-by: Niels de Vos <ndevos@redhat.com>
Reviewed-on: http://review.gluster.org/11022
Reviewed-by: Xavier Hernandez <xhernandez@datalab.es>
Reviewed-by: Krishnan Parthasarathi <kparthas@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Gluster Build System <jenkins@build.gluster.com>
Tested-by: NetBSD Build System <jenkins@build.gluster.org>

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