diff --git a/hbase-server/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/regionserver/StoreScanner.java b/hbase-server/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/regionserver/StoreScanner.java
index 63bb4c0efd2..ddf0721d652 100644
--- a/hbase-server/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/regionserver/StoreScanner.java
+++ b/hbase-server/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/regionserver/StoreScanner.java
@@ -64,7 +64,7 @@ public class StoreScanner extends NonReversedNonLazyKeyValueScanner
   protected KeyValueHeap heap;
   protected boolean cacheBlocks;
 
-  protected int countPerRow = 0;
+  protected long countPerRow = 0;
   protected int storeLimit = -1;
   protected int storeOffset = 0;