diff --git a/mm/oom_kill.c b/mm/oom_kill.c
index 83fb72c108b7947a7b18989455607e14ead0084f..f52e85c80e8d554fcae1a7ad40e0617c0bb1318f 100644
--- a/mm/oom_kill.c
+++ b/mm/oom_kill.c
@@ -172,10 +172,13 @@ unsigned int oom_badness(struct task_struct *p, struct mem_cgroup *mem,
 
 	/*
 	 * The baseline for the badness score is the proportion of RAM that each
-	 * task's rss and swap space use.
+	 * task's rss, pagetable and swap space use.
 	 */
-	points = (get_mm_rss(p->mm) + get_mm_counter(p->mm, MM_SWAPENTS)) * 1000 /
-			totalpages;
+	points = get_mm_rss(p->mm) + p->mm->nr_ptes;
+	points += get_mm_counter(p->mm, MM_SWAPENTS);
+
+	points *= 1000;
+	points /= totalpages;
 	task_unlock(p);
 
 	/*