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As reported by Viktor, plain accesses in LKMM are weaker than
accesses to registers: the latter carry dependencies but the former
do not. This is exemplified in the following snippet:

  int r = READ_ONCE(*x);
  WRITE_ONCE(*y, r);

Here a data dependency links the READ_ONCE() to the WRITE_ONCE(),
preserving their order, because the model treats r as a register.
If r is turned into a memory location accessed by plain accesses,
however, the link is broken and the order between READ_ONCE() and
WRITE_ONCE() is no longer preserved.

This is too conservative, since any optimizations on plain
accesses that might break dependencies are also possible on
registers; it also contradicts the intuitive notion of "dependency"
as the data stored by the WRITE_ONCE() does depend on the data read
by the READ_ONCE(), independently of whether r is a register or a
memory location.

This is resolved by redefining all dependencies to include
dependencies carried by memo...