[RFC 0/4] Virtio uses DMA API for all devices

[Christoph Hellwig]

On Mon, Aug 06, 2018 at 11:35:39PM +0300, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> > As I said replying to Christoph, we are "leaking" into the interface
> > something here that is really what's the VM is doing to itself, which
> > is to stash its memory away in an inaccessible place.
> > 
> > Cheers,
> > Ben.
> 
> I think Christoph merely objects to the specific implementation.  If
> instead you do something like tweak dev->bus_dma_mask for the virtio
> device I think he won't object.

As long as we also document how dev->bus_dma_mask is tweaked for this
particular virtual bus, yes.