GeezerVison

Hmm, this is an interesting way to do it. Local static variables are notorious for being non-thread-safe, so I'm not sure this kind of approach will work. If it does, I don't think we're fixing any issues with re-entrancy.

I would just go with @critical_section on each function, and then switch the module's Py_mod_multiple_interpreters to Py_MOD_MULTIPLE_INTERPRETERS_SUPPORTED instead of Py_MOD_PER_INTERPRETER_GIL_SUPPORTED to denote shared-GIL for subinterpreters. That should fix races for both cases.

This approach looks good to me. I think you are right that we don't have to worry about deadlock here because the calls inside the lock won't call arbitrary Python code.

There's a failing CI related to generated files. I think the pycore_lock.h include in pycore_modsupport.h can be removed now. Also, maybe the arg clinic files need to be regenerated?

Local static variables are notorious for being non-thread-safe

A static PyMutex is fine because PyMutex is thread-safe. (It doesn't matter if it's a local or global static variable.)

The general problems with static variables (including static local variables) is that the data structures are not thread-safe or that they are lazily initialized pointers, which is not the case here.

LGTM