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diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-fs-ext4 b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-fs-ext4
index f22ac0872ae..c631253cf85 100644
--- a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-fs-ext4
+++ b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-fs-ext4
@@ -96,3 +96,16 @@ Contact:	"Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
 Description:
                 The maximum number of megabytes the writeback code will
                 try to write out before move on to another inode.
+
+What:           /sys/fs/ext4/<disk>/extent_max_zeroout_kb
+Date:           August 2012
+Contact:        "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
+Description:
+                The maximum number of kilobytes which will be zeroed
+                out in preference to creating a new uninitialized
+                extent when manipulating an inode's extent tree.  Note
+                that using a larger value will increase the
+                variability of time necessary to complete a random
+                write operation (since a 4k random write might turn
+                into a much larger write due to the zeroout
+                operation).