These are normally held per thread, but in cases of threads not having
dedicated init/cleanup functions (GLib thread pool), we can use a global
one as fallback.
Fixes#1936
Change-Id: Ia2ff3523e6079baa73e0721862100ec2f8b66c88
(cherry picked from commit 5d613020e6)
(cherry picked from commit 871162b13b)
(cherry picked from commit 97dfc13c9f)