diff --git a/fs/dax.c b/fs/dax.c
index d602410d8e52c6fea96735c88e9eb1463f273279..0abbbb62981e1968b242e10683892e30335c87a9 100644
--- a/fs/dax.c
+++ b/fs/dax.c
@@ -87,38 +87,6 @@ struct page *read_dax_sector(struct block_device *bdev, sector_t n)
 	return page;
 }
 
-/*
- * dax_clear_sectors() is called from within transaction context from XFS,
- * and hence this means the stack from this point must follow GFP_NOFS
- * semantics for all operations.
- */
-int dax_clear_sectors(struct block_device *bdev, sector_t _sector, long _size)
-{
-	struct blk_dax_ctl dax = {
-		.sector = _sector,
-		.size = _size,
-	};
-
-	might_sleep();
-	do {
-		long count, sz;
-
-		count = dax_map_atomic(bdev, &dax);
-		if (count < 0)
-			return count;
-		sz = min_t(long, count, SZ_128K);
-		clear_pmem(dax.addr, sz);
-		dax.size -= sz;
-		dax.sector += sz / 512;
-		dax_unmap_atomic(bdev, &dax);
-		cond_resched();
-	} while (dax.size);
-
-	wmb_pmem();
-	return 0;
-}
-EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(dax_clear_sectors);
-
 static bool buffer_written(struct buffer_head *bh)
 {
 	return buffer_mapped(bh) && !buffer_unwritten(bh);
diff --git a/fs/ext2/inode.c b/fs/ext2/inode.c
index 9a14af3b1a69c142e194d6ebc4800b3dc2bf488e..17cbd6b696f29d342df904d52d334139d2d51303 100644
--- a/fs/ext2/inode.c
+++ b/fs/ext2/inode.c
@@ -26,6 +26,7 @@
 #include <linux/highuid.h>
 #include <linux/pagemap.h>
 #include <linux/dax.h>
+#include <linux/blkdev.h>
 #include <linux/quotaops.h>
 #include <linux/writeback.h>
 #include <linux/buffer_head.h>
@@ -737,10 +738,9 @@ static int ext2_get_blocks(struct inode *inode,
 		 * so that it's not found by another thread before it's
 		 * initialised
 		 */
-		err = dax_clear_sectors(inode->i_sb->s_bdev,
-				le32_to_cpu(chain[depth-1].key) <<
-				(inode->i_blkbits - 9),
-				count << inode->i_blkbits);
+		err = sb_issue_zeroout(inode->i_sb,
+				le32_to_cpu(chain[depth-1].key), count,
+				GFP_NOFS);
 		if (err) {
 			mutex_unlock(&ei->truncate_mutex);
 			goto cleanup;
diff --git a/fs/xfs/xfs_bmap_util.c b/fs/xfs/xfs_bmap_util.c
index 3b6309865c65336793a7ac84009188b44b394a32..930ac6a17ce3634691cf5f87bfdbae971c10e99e 100644
--- a/fs/xfs/xfs_bmap_util.c
+++ b/fs/xfs/xfs_bmap_util.c
@@ -72,18 +72,11 @@ xfs_zero_extent(
 	struct xfs_mount *mp = ip->i_mount;
 	xfs_daddr_t	sector = xfs_fsb_to_db(ip, start_fsb);
 	sector_t	block = XFS_BB_TO_FSBT(mp, sector);
-	ssize_t		size = XFS_FSB_TO_B(mp, count_fsb);
-
-	if (IS_DAX(VFS_I(ip)))
-		return dax_clear_sectors(xfs_find_bdev_for_inode(VFS_I(ip)),
-				sector, size);
-
-	/*
-	 * let the block layer decide on the fastest method of
-	 * implementing the zeroing.
-	 */
-	return sb_issue_zeroout(mp->m_super, block, count_fsb, GFP_NOFS);
 
+	return blkdev_issue_zeroout(xfs_find_bdev_for_inode(VFS_I(ip)),
+		block << (mp->m_super->s_blocksize_bits - 9),
+		count_fsb << (mp->m_super->s_blocksize_bits - 9),
+		GFP_NOFS, true);
 }
 
 /*
diff --git a/include/linux/dax.h b/include/linux/dax.h
index 7c45ac7ea1d1a06558f71c89d5d4b5e4ab6e8e3f..7f853ffaa98782d26acda319de8fc1f559d5a832 100644
--- a/include/linux/dax.h
+++ b/include/linux/dax.h
@@ -7,7 +7,6 @@
 
 ssize_t dax_do_io(struct kiocb *, struct inode *, struct iov_iter *, loff_t,
 		  get_block_t, dio_iodone_t, int flags);
-int dax_clear_sectors(struct block_device *bdev, sector_t _sector, long _size);
 int dax_zero_page_range(struct inode *, loff_t from, unsigned len, get_block_t);
 int dax_truncate_page(struct inode *, loff_t from, get_block_t);
 int dax_fault(struct vm_area_struct *, struct vm_fault *, get_block_t);