diff --git a/mm/hugetlb.c b/mm/hugetlb.c
index 6402458fee38..bfcf153bc829 100644
--- a/mm/hugetlb.c
+++ b/mm/hugetlb.c
@@ -1111,6 +1111,14 @@ static void __init gather_bootmem_prealloc(void)
 		WARN_ON(page_count(page) != 1);
 		prep_compound_huge_page(page, h->order);
 		prep_new_huge_page(h, page, page_to_nid(page));
+		/*
+		 * If we had gigantic hugepages allocated at boot time, we need
+		 * to restore the 'stolen' pages to totalram_pages in order to
+		 * fix confusing memory reports from free(1) and another
+		 * side-effects, like CommitLimit going negative.
+		 */
+		if (h->order > (MAX_ORDER - 1))
+			totalram_pages += 1 << h->order;
 	}
 }