Since progress entries array is globally allocated, it is susceptible
to race conditions when using multi-threaded applications. Allocating it
on the stack resolves any potential races as it is thread local by default.
Signed-off-by: Aravind Gopalakrishnan <Aravind.Gopalakrishnan@intel.com>
(cherry picked from commit ed2343034d09b33eb44a0a727bef97a108edc8aa)