diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/kvm/dirty_log_test.c b/tools/testing/selftests/kvm/dirty_log_test.c
index 4a2bdaf616fbff7acec3afb530704785a0282cda..fc27f890155baf9308dd38e641ea35605870719d 100644
--- a/tools/testing/selftests/kvm/dirty_log_test.c
+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/kvm/dirty_log_test.c
@@ -293,7 +293,7 @@ static void run_test(enum vm_guest_mode mode, unsigned long iterations,
 	 * A little more than 1G of guest page sized pages.  Cover the
 	 * case where the size is not aligned to 64 pages.
 	 */
-	guest_num_pages = (1ul << (30 - guest_page_shift)) + 3;
+	guest_num_pages = (1ul << (30 - guest_page_shift)) + 16;
 	host_page_size = getpagesize();
 	host_num_pages = (guest_num_pages * guest_page_size) / host_page_size +
 			 !!((guest_num_pages * guest_page_size) % host_page_size);