base/android: Revive ThreadInstructionCount::Now()

Convenience wrappers around __NR_perf_event_open. They were recently
removed as part of cleanup in tracing [1].

Bring it back as a standalone utility, only for Android. It allows to
roughly compare performance of two functions that are being called
frequently. Recent example of such estimation: [2].

[1] Remove Support for Instruction Count
    http://crrev.com/1016741

[2] Reduce overhead from numerous calls to IsFeatureEnabled()
    http://crbug.com/1341292

Bug: 1341292
Change-Id: I000f0f823d945efcaf4025964de1dbd1025db580
Reviewed-on: https://chromium-review.googlesource.com/c/chromium/src/+/3738191
Reviewed-by: Andrew Grieve <agrieve@chromium.org>
Commit-Queue: Egor Pasko <pasko@chromium.org>
Cr-Commit-Position: refs/heads/main@{#1020632}
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