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diff --git a/fs/xfs/xfs_zone_alloc.c b/fs/xfs/xfs_zone_alloc.c
index 23cdab4515bb..040402240807 100644
--- a/fs/xfs/xfs_zone_alloc.c
+++ b/fs/xfs/xfs_zone_alloc.c
@@ -246,6 +246,14 @@ xfs_zoned_map_extent(
* If a data write raced with this GC write, keep the existing data in
* the data fork, mark our newly written GC extent as reclaimable, then
* move on to the next extent.
+ *
+ * Note that this can also happen when racing with operations that do
+ * not actually invalidate the data, but just move it to a different
+ * inode (XFS_IOC_EXCHANGE_RANGE), or to a different offset inside the
+ * inode (FALLOC_FL_COLLAPSE_RANGE / FALLOC_FL_INSERT_RANGE). If the
+ * data was just moved around, GC fails to free the zone, but the zone
+ * becomes a GC candidate again as soon as all previous GC I/O has
+ * finished and these blocks will be moved out eventually.
*/
if (old_startblock != NULLFSBLOCK &&
old_startblock != data.br_startblock)