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workqueue: Use a kthread_worker to release pool_workqueues
pool_workqueue release path is currently bounced to system_wq; however, this
is a bit tricky because this bouncing occurs while holding a pool lock and
thus has risk of causing a A-A deadlock. This is currently addressed by the
fact that only unbound workqueues use this bouncing path and system_wq is a
per-cpu workqueue.
While this works, it's brittle and requires a work-around like setting the
lockdep subclass for the lock of unbound pools. Besides, future changes will
use the bouncing path for per-cpu workqueues too making the current approach
unusable.
Let's just use a dedicated kthread_worker to untangle the dependency. This
is just one more kthread for all workqueues and makes the pwq release logic
simpler and more robust.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>