The code that Fabio proposes looks like this:

sx_slock(&data->lock);
if (data->buffer)
    a = *data->buffer;
sx_sunlock(&data->lock);


This point is that without a memory barrier on the unlock, the CPU is
free to reorder the instructions into the order is his message.
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