diff --git a/tests/regression/sgemm_tcore/sgemm_impl.hpp b/tests/regression/sgemm_tcore/sgemm_impl.hpp
index f500280e..db6800fc 100644
--- a/tests/regression/sgemm_tcore/sgemm_impl.hpp
+++ b/tests/regression/sgemm_tcore/sgemm_impl.hpp
@@ -568,7 +568,9 @@ template <typename T,
 __attribute__((always_inline)) inline void
 thread_block_gemm_single_tile(const T *local_a, const T *local_b, T *local_c,
                               const uint32_t tid_in_threadblock,
-                              const uint32_t threads_per_threadblock) {
+                              const uint32_t threads_per_threadblock,
+                              const uint32_t threadblocks_per_cluster,
+                              const uint32_t threadblock_id_in_cluster) {
   // no double-buffering
   // FIXME: duplicated from thread_block_gemm
   const uint32_t threads_per_warpgroup = threads_per_threadblock;
@@ -576,6 +578,8 @@ thread_block_gemm_single_tile(const T *local_a, const T *local_b, T *local_c,
   const uint32_t warp_row = warp_id_in_warpgroup / (BN / WN);
   const uint32_t warp_col = warp_id_in_warpgroup % (BN / WN);
   const uint32_t tid_in_warp = tid_in_threadblock % NUM_THREADS;
+  const uint32_t warps_per_threadblock_per_core =
+      NUM_WARPS / threadblocks_per_cluster;
 
 #pragma GCC unroll 1
   for (int i = 0; i < BK_LOOP; i++) {
@@ -608,6 +612,11 @@ thread_block_gemm_single_tile(const T *local_a, const T *local_b, T *local_c,
   }
 
   if constexpr (write_to_smem) {
+    // need to protect smem reads in the earlier step from writes in below,
+    // especially when the destination smem address overlaps with the input
+    threadblock_barrier(threadblock_id_in_cluster,
+                        warps_per_threadblock_per_core);
+
 #pragma GCC unroll
     for (int wm_iter = 0; wm_iter < WMITER; wm_iter++) {
 #pragma GCC unroll
@@ -655,7 +664,7 @@ inline void thread_block_gemm(const T *A, const T *B, float *C,
   const uint32_t warp_col = warp_id_in_warpgroup % (BN / WN);
   const uint32_t tid_in_warp = tid_in_threadblock % NUM_THREADS;
   const uint32_t warps_per_threadblock_per_core =
-      NUM_WARPS / threads_per_threadblock;
+      NUM_WARPS / threadblocks_per_cluster;
 
   T *local_a = reinterpret_cast<T *>(sharedmem_per_threadblock + smem_a_offset);
   T *local_a_buf =
@@ -858,7 +867,8 @@ inline void thread_block_gemm(const T *A, const T *B, float *C,
                                       /*write_to_smem=*/false>(
             local_a_consume, local_b_consume,
             static_cast<T *>(nullptr) /*ignore*/, tid_in_threadblock,
-            threads_per_threadblock);
+            threads_per_threadblock, threadblocks_per_cluster,
+            threadblock_id_in_cluster);
 
         if constexpr (GEMMINI_DMA) {
           // Call gemmini fence at the end of the loop to overlap dma & wmma.