}
 }
 
-/* Free a stage along with its related buffers completely. */
-static void __idetape_kfree_stage(idetape_stage_t *stage)
+/* Free data buffers completely. */
+static void ide_tape_kfree_buffer(idetape_stage_t *stage)
 {
        struct idetape_bh *prev_bh, *bh = stage->bh;
-       int size;
-
-       while (bh != NULL) {
-               if (bh->b_data != NULL) {
-                       size = (int) bh->b_size;
-                       while (size > 0) {
-                               free_page((unsigned long) bh->b_data);
-                               size -= PAGE_SIZE;
-                               bh->b_data += PAGE_SIZE;
-                       }
+
+       while (bh) {
+               u32 size = bh->b_size;
+
+               while (size) {
+                       unsigned int order = fls(size >> PAGE_SHIFT)-1;
+
+                       if (bh->b_data)
+                               free_pages((unsigned long)bh->b_data, order);
+
+                       size &= (order-1);
+                       bh->b_data += (1 << order) * PAGE_SIZE;
                }
                prev_bh = bh;
                bh = bh->b_reqnext;
                atomic_sub(tape->excess_bh_size, &bh->b_count);
        return stage;
 abort:
-       __idetape_kfree_stage(stage);
+       ide_tape_kfree_buffer(stage);
        return NULL;
 }
 
        clear_bit(IDETAPE_FLAG_FILEMARK, &tape->flags);
        tape->merge_stage_size = 0;
        if (tape->merge_stage != NULL) {
-               __idetape_kfree_stage(tape->merge_stage);
+               ide_tape_kfree_buffer(tape->merge_stage);
                tape->merge_stage = NULL;
        }
 
                tape->merge_stage_size = 0;
        }
        if (tape->merge_stage != NULL) {
-               __idetape_kfree_stage(tape->merge_stage);
+               ide_tape_kfree_buffer(tape->merge_stage);
                tape->merge_stage = NULL;
        }
        tape->chrdev_dir = IDETAPE_DIR_NONE;
                                                        REQ_IDETAPE_READ, 0,
                                                        tape->merge_stage->bh);
                        if (bytes_read < 0) {
-                               __idetape_kfree_stage(tape->merge_stage);
+                               ide_tape_kfree_buffer(tape->merge_stage);
                                tape->merge_stage = NULL;
                                tape->chrdev_dir = IDETAPE_DIR_NONE;
                                return bytes_read;
                                                        REQ_IDETAPE_WRITE, 0,
                                                        tape->merge_stage->bh);
                        if (retval < 0) {
-                               __idetape_kfree_stage(tape->merge_stage);
+                               ide_tape_kfree_buffer(tape->merge_stage);
                                tape->merge_stage = NULL;
                                tape->chrdev_dir = IDETAPE_DIR_NONE;
                                return retval;
        if (tape->merge_stage != NULL) {
                idetape_pad_zeros(drive, tape->blk_size *
                                (tape->user_bs_factor - 1));
-               __idetape_kfree_stage(tape->merge_stage);
+               ide_tape_kfree_buffer(tape->merge_stage);
                tape->merge_stage = NULL;
        }
        idetape_write_filemark(drive);