After the fact: https://codereview.chromium.org/2344723003 is a short-term fix for this bug.

The following revision refers to this bug:
  https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src.git/+/abddd185cfadf392a899c386c2deb7b776dcba80

commit abddd185cfadf392a899c386c2deb7b776dcba80
Author: catapult-deps-roller <catapult-deps-roller@chromium.org>
Date: Tue Nov 01 20:19:37 2016

Roll src/third_party/catapult/ 229215e5d..42836761f (1 commit).

https://chromium.googlesource.com/external/github.com/catapult-project/catapult.git/+log/229215e5dde9..42836761f6ea

$ git log 229215e5d..42836761f --date=short --no-merges --format='%ad %ae %s'
2016-11-01 charliea Disable the CPU tracing agent on Windows

BUG= 647443 

Documentation for the AutoRoller is here:
https://skia.googlesource.com/buildbot/+/master/autoroll/README.md

If the roll is causing failures, see:
http://www.chromium.org/developers/tree-sheriffs/sheriff-details-chromium#TOC-Failures-due-to-DEPS-rolls

CQ_INCLUDE_TRYBOTS=master.tryserver.chromium.android:android_optional_gpu_tests_rel
TBR=catapult-sheriff@chromium.org

Review-Url: https://codereview.chromium.org/2469033002
Cr-Commit-Position: refs/heads/master@{#429088}

[modify] https://crrev.com/abddd185cfadf392a899c386c2deb7b776dcba80/DEPS

The following revision refers to this bug:
  https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src.git/+/78c72585a8762486252b7d10ce9036a6ddf8d0f7

commit 78c72585a8762486252b7d10ce9036a6ddf8d0f7
Author: charliea <charliea@chromium.org>
Date: Wed Nov 02 17:54:00 2016

Reenable CPU tracing agent for BattOr benchmarks

After disabling the agent, we made it a no-op on Windows where it was
causing hangs.

BUG= 647443 
CQ_INCLUDE_TRYBOTS=master.tryserver.chromium.perf:android_s5_perf_cq;master.tryserver.chromium.perf:linux_perf_cq;master.tryserver.chromium.perf:mac_retina_perf_cq;master.tryserver.chromium.perf:winx64_10_perf_cq

Review-Url: https://codereview.chromium.org/2466463004
Cr-Commit-Position: refs/heads/master@{#429332}

[modify] https://crrev.com/78c72585a8762486252b7d10ce9036a6ddf8d0f7/tools/perf/benchmarks/battor.py