diff --git a/fs/xfs/xfs_bmap_util.c b/fs/xfs/xfs_bmap_util.c
index a52bbd3abc7df3ac7fa07a12b5dc9ec336d9ab49..4a2965515ca883a92df0313ba908893103fd1ddf 100644
--- a/fs/xfs/xfs_bmap_util.c
+++ b/fs/xfs/xfs_bmap_util.c
@@ -1133,14 +1133,29 @@ xfs_zero_remaining_bytes(
 			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,
diff --git a/fs/xfs/xfs_file.c b/fs/xfs/xfs_file.c
index a629dce4903e2d14375a71ab5574a2d1e70e1685..cfd9b4f5ad6e7dadfcdbfdd2163c99a229948fa2 100644
--- a/fs/xfs/xfs_file.c
+++ b/fs/xfs/xfs_file.c
@@ -79,14 +79,15 @@ xfs_rw_ilock_demote(
 }
 
 /*
- *	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(
@@ -96,7 +97,8 @@ xfs_iozero(
 {
 	struct page		*page;
 	struct address_space	*mapping;
-	int			status;
+	int			status = 0;
+
 
 	mapping = VFS_I(ip)->i_mapping;
 	do {
@@ -108,20 +110,27 @@ xfs_iozero(
 		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);