Ryan Ofsky 735b1cf431 Merge bitcoin/bitcoin#34806: refactor: logging: Various API improvements
02b2c41103 logging: use util/log.h where possible (Anthony Towns)
57d7495fe5 IWYU fixes (Anthony Towns)
611878b46f scripted-diff: logging: Drop LogAcceptCategory (Anthony Towns)
34332dba2f util/log, logging: Provide ShouldDebugLog and ShouldTraceLog instead of a generic ShouldLog (Anthony Towns)
abea304dd6 logging: Move GetLogCategory into Logger class (Anthony Towns)
58113e5833 util/log: Rename LogPrintLevel_ into detail_ namespace (Anthony Towns)
f69d1ae56d util/log: Provide util::log::NO_RATE_LIMIT to avoid rate limits (Anthony Towns)
72e92d67df logging: Protect ShrinkDebugFile by m_cs (Anthony Towns)
904c0d07bb util/stdmutex: Drop StdLockGuard (Anthony Towns)

Pull request description:

  `ShrinkDebugFile` now takes the logging mutex for its entire run; though it's only called in init so shouldn't have any races in the first place.

  Adds a `NO_RATE_LIMIT` tag that can be used with info/warning/error logs to avoid rate-limiting. This allows `LogPrintLevel_` to be restricted to being an internal API.

  The `GetLogCategory` function is moved out of the global namespace.

  `ShouldLog` is split into separate `ShouldDebugLog` and `ShouldTraceLog` so that filtering checks are somewhat more enforced via function signature checks.

  Redundant `LogAcceptCategory` function is removed.

  More files are pointed at util/log.h instead of logging.h.

ACKs for top commit:
  maflcko:
    review ACK 02b2c41103 📅
  sedited:
    Re-ACK 02b2c41103
  l0rinc:
    untested ACK 02b2c41103
  ryanofsky:
    Code review ACK 02b2c41103435d8dbaa77a526e484066471b2b8c! Overall a lot of nice improvements here.

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