Re: [PATCH] RAS/AMD/ATL: Remove bitwise_xor_bits

From: Borislav Petkov

Date: Tue Nov 18 2025 - 07:34:22 EST


On Thu, Nov 13, 2025 at 01:11:25PM +0200, Nikolay Borisov wrote:
> The name of the function is somewhat misleading, it's not just XORing
> bits, but is calculating the parity of the passed in value.

Huh?

It is bitwise XORing the bits. That just *happens* to be the same thing as
calculating the parity modulo 2.

Unless you wanna say something else here which I don't grok...

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