diff --git a/docs/virtio-balloon-stats.txt b/docs/virtio-balloon-stats.txt
index 7a66d25da5..9985e1dffc 100644
--- a/docs/virtio-balloon-stats.txt
+++ b/docs/virtio-balloon-stats.txt
@@ -34,6 +34,8 @@ which will return a dictionary containing:
       - stat-total-memory
       - stat-available-memory
       - stat-disk-caches
+      - stat-htlb-pgalloc
+      - stat-htlb-pgfail
 
   o A key named last-update, which contains the last stats update
     timestamp in seconds. Since this timestamp is generated by the host,
diff --git a/hw/virtio/virtio-balloon.c b/hw/virtio/virtio-balloon.c
index f456cea2e7..1f7a87f094 100644
--- a/hw/virtio/virtio-balloon.c
+++ b/hw/virtio/virtio-balloon.c
@@ -52,6 +52,8 @@ static const char *balloon_stat_names[] = {
    [VIRTIO_BALLOON_S_MEMTOT] = "stat-total-memory",
    [VIRTIO_BALLOON_S_AVAIL] = "stat-available-memory",
    [VIRTIO_BALLOON_S_CACHES] = "stat-disk-caches",
+   [VIRTIO_BALLOON_S_HTLB_PGALLOC] = "stat-htlb-pgalloc",
+   [VIRTIO_BALLOON_S_HTLB_PGFAIL] = "stat-htlb-pgfail",
    [VIRTIO_BALLOON_S_NR] = NULL
 };
 
diff --git a/include/standard-headers/linux/virtio_balloon.h b/include/standard-headers/linux/virtio_balloon.h
index 7b0a41b8fc..e446805ae9 100644
--- a/include/standard-headers/linux/virtio_balloon.h
+++ b/include/standard-headers/linux/virtio_balloon.h
@@ -53,7 +53,9 @@ struct virtio_balloon_config {
 #define VIRTIO_BALLOON_S_MEMTOT   5   /* Total amount of memory */
 #define VIRTIO_BALLOON_S_AVAIL    6   /* Available memory as in /proc */
 #define VIRTIO_BALLOON_S_CACHES   7   /* Disk caches */
-#define VIRTIO_BALLOON_S_NR       8
+#define VIRTIO_BALLOON_S_HTLB_PGALLOC  8  /* Hugetlb page allocations */
+#define VIRTIO_BALLOON_S_HTLB_PGFAIL   9  /* Hugetlb page allocation failures */
+#define VIRTIO_BALLOON_S_NR       10
 
 /*
  * Memory statistics structure.