diff --git a/src/driver/driver_api.cc b/src/driver/driver_api.cc
index 10d9e8023a61..92769d1cef45 100644
--- a/src/driver/driver_api.cc
+++ b/src/driver/driver_api.cc
@@ -53,9 +53,15 @@ TVM_REGISTER_PASS_CONFIG_OPTION("tir.debug_keep_trivial_loop", Bool);
 TVM_REGISTER_PASS_CONFIG_OPTION("tir.use_async_copy", Bool);
 TVM_REGISTER_PASS_CONFIG_OPTION("tir.merge_async_commit_queue_scope", Bool);
 TVM_REGISTER_PASS_CONFIG_OPTION("tir.instrument_lwp", Bool);
-TVM_REGISTER_PASS_CONFIG_OPTION("tir.dma_bypass_cache", Bool);
 TVM_REGISTER_PASS_CONFIG_OPTION("tir.vtcm_capacity", Integer);
 
+// WARNING: May cause coherency issues resulting data miscompares
+// Experimental feature that, when enabled by the runtime, bypasses the cache when using DMA. When
+// bypassing the cache TVM must manage cache coherency in software. Software managed cache coherency
+// can be tricky e.g. it is yet to be proven out in the Hexagon runtime. Hence the warning above and
+// the "experimental" notation for this feature.
+TVM_REGISTER_PASS_CONFIG_OPTION("tir.experimental_dma_bypass_cache", Bool);
+
 using tvm::Array;
 using tvm::transform::Pass;
 
diff --git a/src/tir/transforms/lower_async_dma.cc b/src/tir/transforms/lower_async_dma.cc
index 94769dae0899..5abdc5da84d7 100644
--- a/src/tir/transforms/lower_async_dma.cc
+++ b/src/tir/transforms/lower_async_dma.cc
@@ -211,7 +211,8 @@ namespace transform {
 Pass LowerAsyncDMA() {
   auto pass_func = [=](PrimFunc f, IRModule m, PassContext ctx) {
     auto fptr = f.CopyOnWrite();
-    bool dma_bypass_cache = ctx->GetConfig<Bool>("tir.dma_bypass_cache", Bool(false)).value();
+    bool dma_bypass_cache =
+        ctx->GetConfig<Bool>("tir.experimental_dma_bypass_cache", Bool(false)).value();
     fptr->body = AsyncDMALowerer(dma_bypass_cache)(std::move(fptr->body));
     return f;
   };
diff --git a/tests/python/contrib/test_hexagon/test_async_dma_pipeline.py b/tests/python/contrib/test_hexagon/test_async_dma_pipeline.py
index 914a26c51180..2b6bca008e05 100644
--- a/tests/python/contrib/test_hexagon/test_async_dma_pipeline.py
+++ b/tests/python/contrib/test_hexagon/test_async_dma_pipeline.py
@@ -275,7 +275,7 @@ def evaluate(
     with tvm.transform.PassContext(
         config={
             "tir.use_async_copy": use_async_copy,
-            "tir.dma_bypass_cache": 1,
+            "tir.experimental_dma_bypass_cache": 1,
             "tir.merge_async_commit_queue_scope": merge_async_commit_queue_scope,
         }
     ):
diff --git a/tests/python/contrib/test_hexagon/test_software_pipeline_async.py b/tests/python/contrib/test_hexagon/test_software_pipeline_async.py
index 387d0f20c4c2..c831472a521d 100644
--- a/tests/python/contrib/test_hexagon/test_software_pipeline_async.py
+++ b/tests/python/contrib/test_hexagon/test_software_pipeline_async.py
@@ -180,7 +180,7 @@ def test_async_software_pipeline(
         with tvm.transform.PassContext(
             config={
                 "tir.use_async_copy": 1,
-                "tir.dma_bypass_cache": 1,
+                "tir.experimental_dma_bypass_cache": 1,
                 "tir.merge_async_commit_queue_scope": False,
             }
         ):