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Fix refcount corruption in dm-path-selector

Refcounting with non-atomic ops under shared lock will corrupt the counter
in multi-processor system and may trigger BUG_ON().
Use module refcount.
# same approach as dm-target-use-module-refcount-directly.patch here
# https://www.redhat.com/archives/dm-devel/2008-December/msg00075.html

Typical oops:
  kernel BUG at linux-2.6.29-rc3/drivers/md/dm-path-selector.c:90!
  Pid: 11148, comm: dmsetup Not tainted 2.6.29-rc3-nm #1
  dm_put_path_selector+0x4d/0x61 [dm_multipath]
  Call Trace:
   [<ffffffffa031d3f9>] free_priority_group+0x33/0xb3 [dm_multipath]
   [<ffffffffa031d4aa>] free_multipath+0x31/0x67 [dm_multipath]
   [<ffffffffa031d50d>] multipath_dtr+0x2d/0x32 [dm_multipath]
   [<ffffffffa015d6c2>] dm_table_destroy+0x64/0xd8 [dm_mod]
   [<ffffffffa015b73a>] __unbind+0x46/0x4b [dm_mod]
   [<ffffffffa015b79f>] dm_swap_table+0x60/0x14d [dm_mod]
   [<ffffffffa015f963>] dev_suspend+0xfd/0x177 [dm_mod]
   [<ffffffffa016...