ide-tape: remove tape->cache_stage

Prior to allocating a new pipeline stage, the code checked for the existence of
a cached pipeline stage to use. Do away with and stick to normal pipeline
stages only.

[bart: keep idetape_kmalloc_stage() for now]

Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <petkovbb@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>

diff --git a/drivers/ide/ide-tape.c b/drivers/ide/ide-tape.c
index d3d8b8d..8883eea 100644 (file)
--- a/drivers/ide/ide-tape.c
+++ b/drivers/ide/ide-tape.c
@@ -365,8 +365,6 @@ typedef struct ide_tape_obj {
        idetape_stage_t *next_stage;
        /* New requests will be added to the pipeline here */
        idetape_stage_t *last_stage;
-       /* Optional free stage which we can use */
-       idetape_stage_t *cache_stage;
        int pages_per_stage;
        /* Wasted space in each stage */
        int excess_bh_size;
@@ -1686,16 +1684,10 @@ abort:
 
 static idetape_stage_t *idetape_kmalloc_stage(idetape_tape_t *tape)
 {
-       idetape_stage_t *cache_stage = tape->cache_stage;
-
        debug_log(DBG_PROCS, "Enter %s\n", __func__);
 
        if (tape->nr_stages >= tape->max_stages)
                return NULL;
-       if (cache_stage != NULL) {
-               tape->cache_stage = NULL;
-               return cache_stage;
-       }
        return __idetape_kmalloc_stage(tape, 0, 0);
 }
 
@@ -3245,10 +3237,7 @@ static int idetape_chrdev_release(struct inode *inode, struct file *filp)
                else
                        idetape_wait_for_pipeline(drive);
        }
-       if (tape->cache_stage != NULL) {
-               __idetape_kfree_stage(tape->cache_stage);
-               tape->cache_stage = NULL;
-       }
+
        if (minor < 128 && test_bit(IDETAPE_FLAG_MEDIUM_PRESENT, &tape->flags))
                (void) idetape_rewind_tape(drive);
        if (tape->chrdev_dir == IDETAPE_DIR_NONE) {