break;
                ASSERT(imap.br_blockcount >= 1);
                ASSERT(imap.br_startoff == offset_fsb);
+               ASSERT(imap.br_startblock != DELAYSTARTBLOCK);
+
+               if (imap.br_startblock == HOLESTARTBLOCK ||
+                   imap.br_state == XFS_EXT_UNWRITTEN) {
+                       /* skip the entire extent */
+                       lastoffset = XFS_FSB_TO_B(mp, imap.br_startoff +
+                                                     imap.br_blockcount) - 1;
+                       continue;
+               }
+
                lastoffset = XFS_FSB_TO_B(mp, imap.br_startoff + 1) - 1;
                if (lastoffset > endoff)
                        lastoffset = endoff;
-               if (imap.br_startblock == HOLESTARTBLOCK)
-                       continue;
-               ASSERT(imap.br_startblock != DELAYSTARTBLOCK);
-               if (imap.br_state == XFS_EXT_UNWRITTEN)
+
+               /* DAX can just zero the backing device directly */
+               if (IS_DAX(VFS_I(ip))) {
+                       error = dax_zero_page_range(VFS_I(ip), offset,
+                                                   lastoffset - offset + 1,
+                                                   xfs_get_blocks_direct);
+                       if (error)
+                               return error;
                        continue;
+               }
 
                error = xfs_buf_read_uncached(XFS_IS_REALTIME_INODE(ip) ?
                                mp->m_rtdev_targp : mp->m_ddev_targp,
 
 }
 
 /*
- *     xfs_iozero
+ * xfs_iozero clears the specified range supplied via the page cache (except in
+ * the DAX case). Writes through the page cache will allocate blocks over holes,
+ * though the callers usually map the holes first and avoid them. If a block is
+ * not completely zeroed, then it will be read from disk before being partially
+ * zeroed.
  *
- *     xfs_iozero clears the specified range of buffer supplied,
- *     and marks all the affected blocks as valid and modified.  If
- *     an affected block is not allocated, it will be allocated.  If
- *     an affected block is not completely overwritten, and is not
- *     valid before the operation, it will be read from disk before
- *     being partially zeroed.
+ * In the DAX case, we can just directly write to the underlying pages. This
+ * will not allocate blocks, but will avoid holes and unwritten extents and so
+ * not do unnecessary work.
  */
 int
 xfs_iozero(
 {
        struct page             *page;
        struct address_space    *mapping;
-       int                     status;
+       int                     status = 0;
+
 
        mapping = VFS_I(ip)->i_mapping;
        do {
                if (bytes > count)
                        bytes = count;
 
-               status = pagecache_write_begin(NULL, mapping, pos, bytes,
-                                       AOP_FLAG_UNINTERRUPTIBLE,
-                                       &page, &fsdata);
-               if (status)
-                       break;
+               if (IS_DAX(VFS_I(ip))) {
+                       status = dax_zero_page_range(VFS_I(ip), pos, bytes,
+                                                    xfs_get_blocks_direct);
+                       if (status)
+                               break;
+               } else {
+                       status = pagecache_write_begin(NULL, mapping, pos, bytes,
+                                               AOP_FLAG_UNINTERRUPTIBLE,
+                                               &page, &fsdata);
+                       if (status)
+                               break;
 
-               zero_user(page, offset, bytes);
+                       zero_user(page, offset, bytes);
 
-               status = pagecache_write_end(NULL, mapping, pos, bytes, bytes,
-                                       page, fsdata);
-               WARN_ON(status <= 0); /* can't return less than zero! */
+                       status = pagecache_write_end(NULL, mapping, pos, bytes,
+                                               bytes, page, fsdata);
+                       WARN_ON(status <= 0); /* can't return less than zero! */
+                       status = 0;
+               }
                pos += bytes;
                count -= bytes;
-               status = 0;
        } while (count);
 
        return (-status);