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diff --git a/hw/virtio.c b/hw/virtio.c
index 337ff27ba9..1f92171f68 100644
--- a/hw/virtio.c
+++ b/hw/virtio.c
@@ -23,8 +23,11 @@
/* QEMU doesn't strictly need write barriers since everything runs in
* lock-step. We'll leave the calls to wmb() in though to make it obvious for
* KVM or if kqemu gets SMP support.
+ * In any case, we must prevent the compiler from reordering the code.
+ * TODO: we likely need some rmb()/mb() as well.
*/
-#define wmb() do { } while (0)
+
+#define wmb() __asm__ __volatile__("": : :"memory")
typedef struct VRingDesc
{