bigfile/py: Factor out code to "unpin" a buffer to separate functions
This code was added in 6da5172e (bigfile/py: Teach storeblk() how to correctly propagate traceback on error) to unpin a storeblk pybuf to not care whether its refcount == 1 - this way to be able to propagate python error upper not caring whether pybuf is still referenced or not. 9aa6a5d7 (bigfile/py: Teach loadblk() to automatically break reference cycles to pybuf) adds a note that such unpinning is not strictly correct: becuase of other buffer objects were created from pybuf - they are copying pointers on initialization and unpinning pybuf won't adjust them. However for loadblk codepath it turned out (see next patch) it is not completely possible to unreference pybuf in all cases. For this reason loadblk will be falling back to unpinning too. As a preparatory step move common code to shared functions.
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