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I am looking for some help in debugging an issue. I am quite new to coroutines so please pardon my unfamiliarity.

There is a long-running job (`launch`) which polls data from a stream, and the reader is closed on `job.invokeOnCompletion`. We use `suspendCancellableCoroutine` to register a callback with the reader. 1 data point is polled at a time. We started seeing a potential memory leak with `CancellableContinuationImpl/ChildContinuation` created as part of `suspendCancellableCoroutine`. We expected only 1 active `CancellableContinuationImpl/ChildContinuation` per job and that is the case but job holds reference to old `ChildContinuation` from earlier which prevents it from getting GC'd (in the `nodeList`)

My understanding is that it is detached from the job on successful invocation of `resume`, which is what is expected from our service and even in the heap dump the `state` of `ChildContinuation`denotes it. I am wondering if there is any other scenario where `CancellableContinuationImpl/ChildContinuation` is not removed from the `nodeList`? Or if there is a delay in removing it.