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.
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