turns out relaxed accesses suffice here
diff --git a/src/tools/miri/src/concurrency/sync.rs b/src/tools/miri/src/concurrency/sync.rs
index 11110c6..2c6a7bf 100644
--- a/src/tools/miri/src/concurrency/sync.rs
+++ b/src/tools/miri/src/concurrency/sync.rs
@@ -234,8 +234,8 @@
&init_field,
&ImmTy::from_scalar(init_cookie, ecx.machine.layouts.u32),
init_cookie,
- AtomicRwOrd::Acquire,
- AtomicReadOrd::Acquire,
+ AtomicRwOrd::Relaxed,
+ AtomicReadOrd::Relaxed,
/* can_fail_spuriously */ false,
)?
.to_scalar_pair();