Cc more people, On Wed, 1 Apr 2020 at 08:35, Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On 01/04/20 02:19, Wanpeng Li wrote: > > - /* No delay here, so we always clear the pending bit */ > > - val &= ~(1 << 12); > > + /* Immediately clear Delivery Status in xAPIC mode */ > > + if (!apic_x2apic_mode(apic)) > > + val &= ~(1 << 12); > > This adds a conditional, and the old behavior was valid according to the > SDM: "software should not assume the value returned by reading the ICR > is the last written value". Nadav, Sean, what do you think? Wanpeng