diff --git a/arch/arc/include/asm/Kbuild b/arch/arc/include/asm/Kbuild
index be0c39e76f7c..59e2dd1d434f 100644
--- a/arch/arc/include/asm/Kbuild
+++ b/arch/arc/include/asm/Kbuild
@@ -1,5 +1,4 @@
 generic-y += auxvec.h
-generic-y += barrier.h
 generic-y += bitsperlong.h
 generic-y += bugs.h
 generic-y += clkdev.h
diff --git a/arch/arc/include/asm/barrier.h b/arch/arc/include/asm/barrier.h
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..a7209983ee64
--- /dev/null
+++ b/arch/arc/include/asm/barrier.h
@@ -0,0 +1,48 @@
+/*
+ * Copyright (C) 2014-15 Synopsys, Inc. (www.synopsys.com)
+ *
+ * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
+ * it under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2 as
+ * published by the Free Software Foundation.
+ */
+
+#ifndef __ASM_BARRIER_H
+#define __ASM_BARRIER_H
+
+#ifdef CONFIG_ISA_ARCV2
+
+/*
+ * ARCv2 based HS38 cores are in-order issue, but still weakly ordered
+ * due to micro-arch buffering/queuing of load/store, cache hit vs. miss ...
+ *
+ * Explicit barrier provided by DMB instruction
+ *  - Operand supports fine grained load/store/load+store semantics
+ *  - Ensures that selected memory operation issued before it will complete
+ *    before any subsequent memory operation of same type
+ *  - DMB guarantees SMP as well as local barrier semantics
+ *    (asm-generic/barrier.h ensures sane smp_*mb if not defined here, i.e.
+ *    UP: barrier(), SMP: smp_*mb == *mb)
+ *  - DSYNC provides DMB+completion_of_cache_bpu_maintenance_ops hence not needed
+ *    in the general case. Plus it only provides full barrier.
+ */
+
+#define mb()	asm volatile("dmb 3\n" : : : "memory")
+#define rmb()	asm volatile("dmb 1\n" : : : "memory")
+#define wmb()	asm volatile("dmb 2\n" : : : "memory")
+
+#endif
+
+#ifdef CONFIG_ISA_ARCOMPACT
+
+/*
+ * ARCompact based cores (ARC700) only have SYNC instruction which is super
+ * heavy weight as it flushes the pipeline as well.
+ * There are no real SMP implementations of such cores.
+ */
+
+#define mb()	asm volatile("sync\n" : : : "memory")
+#endif
+
+#include <asm-generic/barrier.h>
+
+#endif
diff --git a/arch/arc/include/asm/io.h b/arch/arc/include/asm/io.h
index cabd518cb253..00f97a2f5fa6 100644
--- a/arch/arc/include/asm/io.h
+++ b/arch/arc/include/asm/io.h
@@ -98,9 +98,45 @@ static inline void __raw_writel(u32 w, volatile void __iomem *addr)
 
 }
 
-#define readb_relaxed readb
-#define readw_relaxed readw
-#define readl_relaxed readl
+#ifdef CONFIG_ISA_ARCV2
+#include <asm/barrier.h>
+#define __iormb()		rmb()
+#define __iowmb()		wmb()
+#else
+#define __iormb()		do { } while (0)
+#define __iowmb()		do { } while (0)
+#endif
+
+/*
+ * MMIO can also get buffered/optimized in micro-arch, so barriers needed
+ * Based on ARM model for the typical use case
+ *
+ *	<ST [DMA buffer]>
+ *	<writel MMIO "go" reg>
+ *  or:
+ *	<readl MMIO "status" reg>
+ *	<LD [DMA buffer]>
+ *
+ * http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20150622133656.GG1583@arm.com
+ */
+#define readb(c)		({ u8  __v = readb_relaxed(c); __iormb(); __v; })
+#define readw(c)		({ u16 __v = readw_relaxed(c); __iormb(); __v; })
+#define readl(c)		({ u32 __v = readl_relaxed(c); __iormb(); __v; })
+
+#define writeb(v,c)		({ __iowmb(); writeb_relaxed(v,c); })
+#define writew(v,c)		({ __iowmb(); writew_relaxed(v,c); })
+#define writel(v,c)		({ __iowmb(); writel_relaxed(v,c); })
+
+/*
+ * Relaxed API for drivers which can handle any ordering themselves
+ */
+#define readb_relaxed(c)	__raw_readb(c)
+#define readw_relaxed(c)	__raw_readw(c)
+#define readl_relaxed(c)	__raw_readl(c)
+
+#define writeb_relaxed(v,c)	__raw_writeb(v,c)
+#define writew_relaxed(v,c)	__raw_writew(v,c)
+#define writel_relaxed(v,c)	__raw_writel(v,c)
 
 #include <asm-generic/io.h>