On Tue, Feb 04, 2014 at 11:51:31AM -0800, David Daney wrote: > On OCTEON, SC implies a SYNC operation for the target memory location. So > the "SC b" is ordered before any writes that come after the SC. Ah, that makes it all come together. I was thrown by octeon initially having WEAK_REORDERING_BEYOND_LLSC set and thus thinking there were no implied barriers. Thanks David.