diff --git a/include/linux/mmzone.h b/include/linux/mmzone.h
index 0c5da9141983..9d3ea9085556 100644
--- a/include/linux/mmzone.h
+++ b/include/linux/mmzone.h
@@ -234,7 +234,21 @@ enum node_stat_item {
 #endif
 #ifdef CONFIG_NUMA_BALANCING
 	PGPROMOTE_SUCCESS,	/* promote successfully */
-	PGPROMOTE_CANDIDATE,	/* candidate pages to promote */
+	/**
+	 * Candidate pages for promotion based on hint fault latency.  This
+	 * counter is used to control the promotion rate and adjust the hot
+	 * threshold.
+	 */
+	PGPROMOTE_CANDIDATE,
+	/**
+	 * Not rate-limited (NRL) candidate pages for those can be promoted
+	 * without considering hot threshold because of enough free pages in
+	 * fast-tier node.  These promotions bypass the regular hotness checks
+	 * and do NOT influence the promotion rate-limiter or
+	 * threshold-adjustment logic.
+	 * This is for statistics/monitoring purposes.
+	 */
+	PGPROMOTE_CANDIDATE_NRL,
 #endif
 	/* PGDEMOTE_*: pages demoted */
 	PGDEMOTE_KSWAPD,
diff --git a/kernel/sched/fair.c b/kernel/sched/fair.c
index b173a059315c..82c8d804c54c 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/fair.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/fair.c
@@ -1923,11 +1923,13 @@ bool should_numa_migrate_memory(struct task_struct *p, struct folio *folio,
 		struct pglist_data *pgdat;
 		unsigned long rate_limit;
 		unsigned int latency, th, def_th;
+		long nr = folio_nr_pages(folio);
 
 		pgdat = NODE_DATA(dst_nid);
 		if (pgdat_free_space_enough(pgdat)) {
 			/* workload changed, reset hot threshold */
 			pgdat->nbp_threshold = 0;
+			mod_node_page_state(pgdat, PGPROMOTE_CANDIDATE_NRL, nr);
 			return true;
 		}
 
@@ -1941,8 +1943,7 @@ bool should_numa_migrate_memory(struct task_struct *p, struct folio *folio,
 		if (latency >= th)
 			return false;
 
-		return !numa_promotion_rate_limit(pgdat, rate_limit,
-						  folio_nr_pages(folio));
+		return !numa_promotion_rate_limit(pgdat, rate_limit, nr);
 	}
 
 	this_cpupid = cpu_pid_to_cpupid(dst_cpu, current->pid);
diff --git a/mm/vmstat.c b/mm/vmstat.c
index 71cd1ceba191..e74f0b2a1021 100644
--- a/mm/vmstat.c
+++ b/mm/vmstat.c
@@ -1280,6 +1280,7 @@ const char * const vmstat_text[] = {
 #ifdef CONFIG_NUMA_BALANCING
 	[I(PGPROMOTE_SUCCESS)]			= "pgpromote_success",
 	[I(PGPROMOTE_CANDIDATE)]		= "pgpromote_candidate",
+	[I(PGPROMOTE_CANDIDATE_NRL)]		= "pgpromote_candidate_nrl",
 #endif
 	[I(PGDEMOTE_KSWAPD)]			= "pgdemote_kswapd",
 	[I(PGDEMOTE_DIRECT)]			= "pgdemote_direct",