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mmap writes to file on disk(synchronous/asynchronous)

I havea question regarding mmap functionality. when mmap is used in asynchronous mode where the kernel takes care of persisting the data to the mapped file on the disk , is it possible to have the former updates overwrite the later updates ?

Lets say at time T, we modify a location in memory that is memory mapped to a file on disk and again at time T+1 we modify the same location in memory. As the writes to the file are not synchronous, is it possible that kernel first picks up the modifications at time T+1 and then picks up the modifications at time T resulting in inconsistency in the memory mapped file ?

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