On Fri, Sep 01, 2017 at 07:16:29PM +0900, Byungchul Park wrote: > It would be gone _only_ at the time the history overrun, and then it > will be built again. So, you are wrong.
How will it ever be build again? You only ever spawn the worker thread _ONCE_, then it runs lots and lots of works. We _could_ go fix it, but I really don't see it being worth the time and effort, its a few isolated locks inside the kthread/workqueue code.