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clear_IO_APIC_pin() ignores entries that are set to delivery mode SMI. While this seems reasonable if the entry was unmasked, I consider it dubious for masked entries. In Linux, such behavior is benign since when the entry later is being used for some normal interrupt, the old setting is simply overwritten. In Xen, however, ioapic_guest_write() uses the vector field to determine the previous