diff --git a/src/libvirt_private.syms b/src/libvirt_private.syms
index 951ba7f0ca..74e3479842 100644
--- a/src/libvirt_private.syms
+++ b/src/libvirt_private.syms
@@ -2027,6 +2027,7 @@ virFileReadValueInt;
 virFileReadValueScaledInt;
 virFileReadValueString;
 virFileReadValueUint;
+virFileReadValueUllong;
 virFileRelLinkPointsTo;
 virFileRemove;
 virFileRemoveLastComponent;
diff --git a/src/qemu/qemu_driver.c b/src/qemu/qemu_driver.c
index 540131eb41..e92e8b5318 100644
--- a/src/qemu/qemu_driver.c
+++ b/src/qemu/qemu_driver.c
@@ -20767,8 +20767,19 @@ qemuDomainGetStatsCpuCache(virQEMUDriverPtr driver,
                                          "cpu.cache.monitor.%zu.bank.%zu.id", i, j) < 0)
                 goto cleanup;
 
-            if (virTypedParamListAddUInt(params, resdata[i]->stats[j]->vals[0],
-                                         "cpu.cache.monitor.%zu.bank.%zu.bytes", i, j) < 0)
+            /* 'resdata[i]->stats[j]->vals[0]' keeps the value of how many last
+             * level cache in bank j currently occupied by the vcpus listed in
+             * resource monitor i, in bytes. This value is reported through a
+             * 64 bit hardware counter, so it is better to be arranged with
+             * data type in 64 bit width, but considering the fact that
+             * physical cache on a CPU could never be designed to be bigger
+             * than 4G bytes in size, to keep the 'domstats' interface
+             * historically consistent, it is safe to report the value with a
+             * truncated 'UInt' data type here. */
+            if (virTypedParamListAddUInt(params,
+                                         (unsigned int)resdata[i]->stats[j]->vals[0],
+                                         "cpu.cache.monitor.%zu.bank.%zu.bytes",
+                                         i, j) < 0)
                 goto cleanup;
         }
     }
diff --git a/src/util/virfile.c b/src/util/virfile.c
index 4fc872ef1d..5acac85bb9 100644
--- a/src/util/virfile.c
+++ b/src/util/virfile.c
@@ -4123,6 +4123,46 @@ virFileReadValueUint(unsigned int *value, const char *format, ...)
 }
 
 
+/**
+ * virFileReadValueUllong:
+ * @value: pointer to unsigned long long to be filled in with the value
+ * @format, ...: file to read from
+ *
+ * Read unsigned int from @format and put it into @value.
+ *
+ * Return -2 for non-existing file, -1 on other errors and 0 if everything went
+ * fine.
+ */
+int
+virFileReadValueUllong(unsigned long long *value, const char *format, ...)
+{
+    g_autofree char *str = NULL;
+    g_autofree char *path = NULL;
+    va_list ap;
+
+    va_start(ap, format);
+    path = g_strdup_vprintf(format, ap);
+    va_end(ap);
+
+    if (!virFileExists(path))
+        return -2;
+
+    if (virFileReadAll(path, INT_BUFSIZE_BOUND(*value), &str) < 0)
+        return -1;
+
+    virStringTrimOptionalNewline(str);
+
+    if (virStrToLong_ullp(str, NULL, 10, value) < 0) {
+        virReportError(VIR_ERR_INTERNAL_ERROR,
+                       _("Invalid unsigned long long value '%s' in file '%s'"),
+                       str, path);
+        return -1;
+    }
+
+    return 0;
+}
+
+
 /**
  * virFileReadValueScaledInt:
  * @value: pointer to unsigned long long int to be filled in with the value
diff --git a/src/util/virfile.h b/src/util/virfile.h
index c73f5252e4..c805d87b3f 100644
--- a/src/util/virfile.h
+++ b/src/util/virfile.h
@@ -338,6 +338,8 @@ int virFileReadValueInt(int *value, const char *format, ...)
  G_GNUC_PRINTF(2, 3);
 int virFileReadValueUint(unsigned int *value, const char *format, ...)
  G_GNUC_PRINTF(2, 3);
+int virFileReadValueUllong(unsigned long long *value, const char *format, ...)
+ G_GNUC_PRINTF(2, 3);
 int virFileReadValueBitmap(virBitmapPtr *value, const char *format, ...)
  G_GNUC_PRINTF(2, 3);
 int virFileReadValueScaledInt(unsigned long long *value, const char *format, ...)
diff --git a/src/util/virresctrl.c b/src/util/virresctrl.c
index b78fded026..684d2ce398 100644
--- a/src/util/virresctrl.c
+++ b/src/util/virresctrl.c
@@ -2678,7 +2678,7 @@ virResctrlMonitorGetStats(virResctrlMonitorPtr monitor,
     int rv = -1;
     int ret = -1;
     size_t i = 0;
-    unsigned int val = 0;
+    unsigned long long val = 0;
     DIR *dirp = NULL;
     char *datapath = NULL;
     char *filepath = NULL;
@@ -2734,8 +2734,8 @@ virResctrlMonitorGetStats(virResctrlMonitorPtr monitor,
             goto cleanup;
 
         for (i = 0; resources[i]; i++) {
-            rv = virFileReadValueUint(&val, "%s/%s/%s", datapath,
-                                      ent->d_name, resources[i]);
+            rv = virFileReadValueUllong(&val, "%s/%s/%s", datapath,
+                                        ent->d_name, resources[i]);
             if (rv == -2) {
                 virReportError(VIR_ERR_INTERNAL_ERROR,
                                _("File '%s/%s/%s' does not exist."),
diff --git a/src/util/virresctrl.h b/src/util/virresctrl.h
index 3dd7c96348..11f275acf4 100644
--- a/src/util/virresctrl.h
+++ b/src/util/virresctrl.h
@@ -204,7 +204,7 @@ struct _virResctrlMonitorStats {
     char **features;
     /* @vals store the statistical record values and @val[0] is the value for
      * @features[0], @val[1] for@features[1] ... respectively */
-    unsigned int *vals;
+    unsigned long long *vals;
     /* The length of @vals array */
     size_t nvals;
 };