Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 7 Apr 1999 15:56:26 +0200 (CEST) | From | Andrea Arcangeli <> | Subject | Re: [patch] some buffer.c glitches |
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On Wed, 7 Apr 1999, Stephen C. Tweedie wrote:
>Hi, > >On Mon, 5 Apr 1999 00:25:56 +0200 (CEST), Andrea Arcangeli ><andrea@e-mind.com> said: > >> 6. We don't need to initialize a buffer_head with zero values because a >> buffer head is enforced to be zeroed before being put in the >> unused_buffer_head list. > >Hmm? Right now we _don't_ zero out buffers which come off the >buffer_head free list.
Could you expain better? When we release a buffer from the freelist their buffer_heads are put on the unused list by put_unused_buffer_head() that will zero them out completly. Maybe I am missing something...
Andrea Arcangeli
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