Re: [PATCH RESEND v6] xfs: add FALLOC_FL_WRITE_ZEROES to XFS code base

["Darrick J. Wong" <djwong@kernel.org>]

On Thu, Jan 15, 2026 at 10:26:15AM +0100, Lukas Herbolt wrote:
> Add support for FALLOC_FL_WRITE_ZEROES if the underlying device enable
> the unmap write zeroes operation.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Lukas Herbolt <lukas@herbolt.com>
> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>

Looks good to me now, thanks for taking this on!
Reviewed-by: "Darrick J. Wong" <djwong@kernel.org>

--D

> ---
>  fs/xfs/xfs_bmap_util.c | 10 ++++++++--
>  fs/xfs/xfs_bmap_util.h |  2 +-
>  fs/xfs/xfs_file.c      | 25 +++++++++++++++++++------
>  3 files changed, 28 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/fs/xfs/xfs_bmap_util.c b/fs/xfs/xfs_bmap_util.c
> index 06ca11731e430..ee5765bf52944 100644
> --- a/fs/xfs/xfs_bmap_util.c
> +++ b/fs/xfs/xfs_bmap_util.c
> @@ -642,11 +642,17 @@ xfs_free_eofblocks(
>  	return error;
>  }
>  
> +/*
> + * Callers can specify bmapi_flags, if XFS_BMAPI_ZERO is used there are no
> + * further checks whether the hard ware supports and it can fallback to
> + * software zeroing.
> + */
>  int
>  xfs_alloc_file_space(
>  	struct xfs_inode	*ip,
>  	xfs_off_t		offset,
> -	xfs_off_t		len)
> +	xfs_off_t		len,
> +	uint32_t		bmapi_flags)
>  {
>  	xfs_mount_t		*mp = ip->i_mount;
>  	xfs_off_t		count;
> @@ -748,7 +754,7 @@ xfs_alloc_file_space(
>  		 * will eventually reach the requested range.
>  		 */
>  		error = xfs_bmapi_write(tp, ip, startoffset_fsb,
> -				allocatesize_fsb, XFS_BMAPI_PREALLOC, 0, imapp,
> +				allocatesize_fsb, bmapi_flags, 0, imapp,
>  				&nimaps);
>  		if (error) {
>  			if (error != -ENOSR)
> diff --git a/fs/xfs/xfs_bmap_util.h b/fs/xfs/xfs_bmap_util.h
> index c477b33616304..2895cc97a5728 100644
> --- a/fs/xfs/xfs_bmap_util.h
> +++ b/fs/xfs/xfs_bmap_util.h
> @@ -56,7 +56,7 @@ int	xfs_bmap_last_extent(struct xfs_trans *tp, struct xfs_inode *ip,
>  
>  /* preallocation and hole punch interface */
>  int	xfs_alloc_file_space(struct xfs_inode *ip, xfs_off_t offset,
> -		xfs_off_t len);
> +		xfs_off_t len, uint32_t bmapi_flags);
>  int	xfs_free_file_space(struct xfs_inode *ip, xfs_off_t offset,
>  		xfs_off_t len, struct xfs_zone_alloc_ctx *ac);
>  int	xfs_collapse_file_space(struct xfs_inode *, xfs_off_t offset,
> diff --git a/fs/xfs/xfs_file.c b/fs/xfs/xfs_file.c
> index f96fbf5c54c99..040e4407a8a07 100644
> --- a/fs/xfs/xfs_file.c
> +++ b/fs/xfs/xfs_file.c
> @@ -1261,23 +1261,33 @@ xfs_falloc_zero_range(
>  	struct xfs_zone_alloc_ctx *ac)
>  {
>  	struct inode		*inode = file_inode(file);
> +	struct xfs_inode	*ip = XFS_I(inode);
>  	unsigned int		blksize = i_blocksize(inode);
>  	loff_t			new_size = 0;
>  	int			error;
>  
> -	trace_xfs_zero_file_space(XFS_I(inode));
> +	trace_xfs_zero_file_space(ip);
>  
>  	error = xfs_falloc_newsize(file, mode, offset, len, &new_size);
>  	if (error)
>  		return error;
>  
> -	error = xfs_free_file_space(XFS_I(inode), offset, len, ac);
> +	error = xfs_free_file_space(ip, offset, len, ac);
>  	if (error)
>  		return error;
>  
>  	len = round_up(offset + len, blksize) - round_down(offset, blksize);
>  	offset = round_down(offset, blksize);
> -	error = xfs_alloc_file_space(XFS_I(inode), offset, len);
> +	if (mode & FALLOC_FL_WRITE_ZEROES) {
> +		if (xfs_is_always_cow_inode(ip) ||
> +		    !bdev_write_zeroes_unmap_sectors(
> +				xfs_inode_buftarg(ip)->bt_bdev))
> +			return -EOPNOTSUPP;
> +		error = xfs_alloc_file_space(ip, offset, len, XFS_BMAPI_ZERO);
> +	} else {
> +		error = xfs_alloc_file_space(ip, offset, len,
> +				XFS_BMAPI_PREALLOC);
> +	}
>  	if (error)
>  		return error;
>  	return xfs_falloc_setsize(file, new_size);
> @@ -1302,7 +1312,8 @@ xfs_falloc_unshare_range(
>  	if (error)
>  		return error;
>  
> -	error = xfs_alloc_file_space(XFS_I(inode), offset, len);
> +	error = xfs_alloc_file_space(XFS_I(inode), offset, len,
> +			XFS_BMAPI_PREALLOC);
>  	if (error)
>  		return error;
>  	return xfs_falloc_setsize(file, new_size);
> @@ -1330,7 +1341,8 @@ xfs_falloc_allocate_range(
>  	if (error)
>  		return error;
>  
> -	error = xfs_alloc_file_space(XFS_I(inode), offset, len);
> +	error = xfs_alloc_file_space(XFS_I(inode), offset, len,
> +			XFS_BMAPI_PREALLOC);
>  	if (error)
>  		return error;
>  	return xfs_falloc_setsize(file, new_size);
> @@ -1340,7 +1352,7 @@ xfs_falloc_allocate_range(
>  		(FALLOC_FL_ALLOCATE_RANGE | FALLOC_FL_KEEP_SIZE |	\
>  		 FALLOC_FL_PUNCH_HOLE |	FALLOC_FL_COLLAPSE_RANGE |	\
>  		 FALLOC_FL_ZERO_RANGE |	FALLOC_FL_INSERT_RANGE |	\
> -		 FALLOC_FL_UNSHARE_RANGE)
> +		 FALLOC_FL_UNSHARE_RANGE | FALLOC_FL_WRITE_ZEROES)
>  
>  STATIC long
>  __xfs_file_fallocate(
> @@ -1383,6 +1395,7 @@ __xfs_file_fallocate(
>  	case FALLOC_FL_INSERT_RANGE:
>  		error = xfs_falloc_insert_range(file, offset, len);
>  		break;
> +	case FALLOC_FL_WRITE_ZEROES:
>  	case FALLOC_FL_ZERO_RANGE:
>  		error = xfs_falloc_zero_range(file, mode, offset, len, ac);
>  		break;
> -- 
> 2.51.1
> 
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