I ran test_tracemalloc on Linux and Windows and the test passed successfully.
It should probably be better to split the patch in two parts if the idea of changing Python/thread* files is accepted. (But initially, the issue comes from the tracemalloc module.)
set_reentrant() of tracemalloc.c:
+ assert(PyThread_get_key_value(tracemalloc_reentrant_key) == REENTRANT);
I also added a new assertion to ensure that set_reentrant(0) was not called twice. It was a suggesed of Jim Jewett.
This is unrelated to this issue and should be commited separatly.