If anything, namespace_lock should be DEFINE_LOCK_GUARD_0, not DEFINE_GUARD.
That way we
* do not need to feed it a bogus argument
* do not get gcc trying to compare an address of static in
file variable with -4097 - and, if we are unlucky, trying to keep
it in a register, with spills and all such.
The same problems apply to grabbing namespace_sem shared.
Rename it to namespace_excl, add namespace_shared, convert the existing users: