/dev/mem and PCI memory = EFAULT?

[Stas Sergeev <stsp@list.ru>]

Hello.

For the long time dosemu used /dev/mem for vga pass-through.
Now it appears /dev/mem has this check:
http://lxr.free-electrons.com/source/drivers/char/mem.c#L51
which prevents an accesses to PCI memory regions if the
"high_memory" points low enough. It seems "high_memory"
just points to the end of the physical ram, so depending on
the ram size you either can access PCI devices or you get
EFAULT.
Was it wrong to use /dev/mem for accessing the PCI devices?
How should I do that now?

Note: I haven't properly tested that case. I can see the problem
only under qemu, because all my machines has enough ram for
the things to work. Still the failure under qemu makes me wonder
if I should stop using /dev/mem for accessing PCI memory.