Introduce a counter for protection against global read lock on thread level.

The functions for protection against global read lock sometimes need a local
variable to signal when the protection is set, and hence need to be released.
It would be better to control this behaviour via a counter on the THD struct,
telling how many times the protection has been claimed by the current thread.
A side-effect of the fix is that if protection is claimed twice for a thread,
only a simple increment is required for the second claim, instead of a
mutex-protected increment of the global variable protect_against_global_read_lock.