Re: [patch] some buffer.c glitches

Stephen C. Tweedie (sct@redhat.com)
Wed, 7 Apr 1999 14:27:49 +0100 (BST)


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.

--Stephen

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