I used to do this a lot at a previous company - but I don't really have a good answer for you, I don't think there is agreement in the high rise industry. I've done a lot of peer reviews on these as well and have seen people do lots of different things.
The most common thing that I've seen is as you stated to check for tension stresses. That usually means looking at the 'uplift' load combos and finding all of the net tension areas. Again I've seen this done different ways - I've seen people crack anything with any net tension, and others only crack where net tension exceeds the modulus of rupture. Depending on what software you are using you can usually set your option to turn everything above a certain stress level a certain color, say red, to make this faster to identify.
Some people crack all walls below any stories where tension is identified and others actually go panel by panel to identify and modify stiffness. I have also seen a cracking modifier applied to everything, regardless of stresses from analysis. I believe it also varies by region. I did a few buildings in Asia where we had really crazy drift requirements, but at the same time they allowed 1.0Ig for all walls.
People will often cite the ACI recommended values but in practice I didn't find that people were using those, it was more the exception.
In high rise you are probably controlled by wind drifts, and changes in stiffness at the base make a big difference so your assumptions for cracking have a large impact on your overall design. As I said - no good answer, just giving you what I've seen.