Merge from projects/counters: counter(9).

Introduce counter(9) API, that implements fast and raceless counters,
provided (but not limited to) for gathering of statistical data.

See http://lists.f

Merge from projects/counters: counter(9).

Introduce counter(9) API, that implements fast and raceless counters,
provided (but not limited to) for gathering of statistical data.

See http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-arch/2013-April/014204.html
for more details.

In collaboration with: kib
Reviewed by: luigi
Tested by: ae, ray
Sponsored by: Nginx, Inc.

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