threads: introduce util/threadnames, refactor thread naming

This work is prerequisite to attaching thread names to log lines and deadlock
debug utilities. This code allows setting of an "internal" threadname per
thread on platforms where thread_local is available.

This commit also moves RenameThread() out of a more general module and adds a
numeric suffix to disambiguate between threads with the same name. It
explicitly names a few main threads using the new util::ThreadRename().

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+// Copyright (c) 2018 The Bitcoin Core developers
+// Distributed under the MIT software license, see the accompanying
+// file COPYING or http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php.
+
+#ifndef BITCOIN_UTIL_THREADNAMES_H
+#define BITCOIN_UTIL_THREADNAMES_H
+
+#include <string>
+
+namespace util {
+//! Rename a thread both in terms of an internal (in-memory) name as well
+//! as its system thread name.
+void ThreadRename(std::string&&);
+
+//! Get the thread's internal (in-memory) name; used e.g. for identification in
+//! logging.
+const std::string& ThreadGetInternalName();
+
+} // namespace util
+
+#endif // BITCOIN_UTIL_THREADNAMES_H