From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2025 20:36:49 +0000 (-0700)
Subject: Merge tag 'vfs-6.17-rc1.fallocate' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git... 
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Merge tag 'vfs-6.17-rc1.fallocate' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs

Pull fallocate updates from Christian Brauner:
 "fallocate() currently supports creating preallocated files
  efficiently. However, on most filesystems fallocate() will preallocate
  blocks in an unwriten state even if FALLOC_FL_ZERO_RANGE is specified.

  The extent state must later be converted to a written state when the
  user writes data into this range, which can trigger numerous metadata
  changes and journal I/O. This may leads to significant write
  amplification and performance degradation in synchronous write mode.

  At the moment, the only method to avoid this is to create an empty
  file and write zero data into it (for example, using 'dd' with a large
  block size). However, this method is slow and consumes a considerable
  amount of disk bandwidth.

  Now that more and more flash-based storage devices are available it is
  possible to efficiently write zeros to SSDs using the unmap write
  zeroes command if the devices do not write physical zeroes to the
  media.

  For example, if SCSI SSDs support the UMMAP bit or NVMe SSDs support
  the DEAC bit[1], the write zeroes command does not write actual data
  to the device, instead, NVMe converts the zeroed range to a
  deallocated state, which works fast and consumes almost no disk write
  bandwidth.

  This series implements the BLK_FEAT_WRITE_ZEROES_UNMAP feature and
  BLK_FLAG_WRITE_ZEROES_UNMAP_DISABLED flag for SCSI, NVMe and
  device-mapper drivers, and add the FALLOC_FL_WRITE_ZEROES and
  STATX_ATTR_WRITE_ZEROES_UNMAP support for ext4 and raw bdev devices.

  fallocate() is subsequently extended with the FALLOC_FL_WRITE_ZEROES
  flag. FALLOC_FL_WRITE_ZEROES zeroes a specified file range in such a
  way that subsequent writes to that range do not require further
  changes to the file mapping metadata. This flag is beneficial for
  subsequent pure overwriting within this range, as it can save on block
  allocation and, consequently, significant metadata changes"

* tag 'vfs-6.17-rc1.fallocate' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs:
  ext4: add FALLOC_FL_WRITE_ZEROES support
  block: add FALLOC_FL_WRITE_ZEROES support
  block: factor out common part in blkdev_fallocate()
  fs: introduce FALLOC_FL_WRITE_ZEROES to fallocate
  dm: clear unmap write zeroes limits when disabling write zeroes
  scsi: sd: set max_hw_wzeroes_unmap_sectors if device supports SD_ZERO_*_UNMAP
  nvmet: set WZDS and DRB if device enables unmap write zeroes operation
  nvme: set max_hw_wzeroes_unmap_sectors if device supports DEAC bit
  block: introduce max_{hw|user}_wzeroes_unmap_sectors to queue limits
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