Tracing: Add Chrome Trace Format Visualizer plugin

This new plugin adds a viewer for Chrome Trace Format (CTF) files
(aka Trace Event Format). It uses the same UI components as the
QML Profiler timeline and the Perf Profiler.

The Trace Event Format is generated by different kinds of tracing tools.
Usually the files are display with the trace-viewer, built into Chrome
(chrome://tracing). This plugin was developed because of the high memory
usage of trace-viewer, which makes it difficult to use with trace files
bigger than 100 MB.

The plugin fully supports all event types used in data generated by
LTTng, converted to CTF by https://github.com/KDAB/ctf2ctf.
Some of the more advanced event types used for example in Android system
traces, though, are not supported. The viewer will silently ignore
unsupported event types.

Supported Event Types:
- Begin, End, Duration and Instant events
- Counter events (graphs)
- Metadata events (process and thread name)

The plugin uses nlohmann/json instead of QJson because of the ~128 MB
object size limit by QJson.

[ChangeLog][Tracing][CtfVisualizer] Added Chrome Trace Format Visualizer plugin

Change-Id: I5969f7f83f3305712d4aec04487e2403510af64b
Reviewed-by: Ulf Hermann <ulf.hermann@qt.io>

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+/****************************************************************************
+**
+** Copyright (C) 2019 Klarälvdalens Datakonsult AB, a KDAB Group company,
+** info@kdab.com, author Tim Henning <tim.henning@kdab.com>
+** Contact: https://www.qt.io/licensing/
+**
+** This file is part of Qt Creator.
+**
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+**
+****************************************************************************/
+
+#pragma once
+
+#include <extensionsystem/iplugin.h>
+
+namespace CtfVisualizer {
+namespace Internal {
+
+class CtfVisualizerPlugin : public ExtensionSystem::IPlugin
+{
+    Q_OBJECT
+    Q_PLUGIN_METADATA(IID "org.qt-project.Qt.QtCreatorPlugin" FILE "CtfVisualizer.json")
+
+public:
+    ~CtfVisualizerPlugin();
+
+    bool initialize(const QStringList &arguments, QString *errorString) final;
+    void extensionsInitialized() final;
+
+    class CtfVisualizerPluginPrivate *d = nullptr;
+};
+
+} // namespace Internal
+} // namespace CtfVisualizer