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diff --git a/include/linux/vmstat.h b/include/linux/vmstat.h
index 773135fc6e19..506d625163a1 100644
--- a/include/linux/vmstat.h
+++ b/include/linux/vmstat.h
@@ -313,6 +313,12 @@ static inline void __mod_node_page_state(struct pglist_data *pgdat,
enum node_stat_item item, int delta)
{
if (vmstat_item_in_bytes(item)) {
+ /*
+ * Only cgroups use subpage accounting right now; at
+ * the global level, these items still change in
+ * multiples of whole pages. Store them as pages
+ * internally to keep the per-cpu counters compact.
+ */
VM_WARN_ON_ONCE(delta & (PAGE_SIZE - 1));
delta >>= PAGE_SHIFT;
}