The patch titled Subject: fs/buffer.c: remove redundant initialization in alloc_page_buffers() has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is fs-bufferc-remove-redundant-initialization-in-alloc_page_buffers.patch Before you just go and hit "reply", please: a) Consider who else should be cc'ed b) Prefer to cc a suitable mailing list as well c) Ideally: find the original patch on the mailing list and do a reply-to-all to that, adding suitable additional cc's *** Remember to use Documentation/SubmitChecklist when testing your code *** The -mm tree is included into linux-next and is updated there every 3-4 working days ------------------------------------------------------ From: Yan Hong <clouds.yan@xxxxxxxxx> Subject: fs/buffer.c: remove redundant initialization in alloc_page_buffers() buffer_head comes from kmem_cache_zalloc(), no need to zero its fields. Signed-off-by: Yan Hong <clouds.yan@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/buffer.c | 3 --- 1 file changed, 3 deletions(-) diff -puN fs/buffer.c~fs-bufferc-remove-redundant-initialization-in-alloc_page_buffers fs/buffer.c --- a/fs/buffer.c~fs-bufferc-remove-redundant-initialization-in-alloc_page_buffers +++ a/fs/buffer.c @@ -849,13 +849,10 @@ try_again: if (!bh) goto no_grow; - bh->b_bdev = NULL; bh->b_this_page = head; bh->b_blocknr = -1; head = bh; - bh->b_state = 0; - atomic_set(&bh->b_count, 0); bh->b_size = size; /* Link the buffer to its page */ _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from clouds.yan@xxxxxxxxx are linux-next.patch fs-block_devc-need-not-to-check-inode-i_bdev-in-bd_forget.patch writeback-fix-a-typo-in-comment.patch fs-bufferc-do-not-inline-exported-function.patch fs-bufferc-remove-redundant-initialization-in-alloc_page_buffers.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe mm-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html