diff --git a/base/mk/spec-x86_64.mk b/base/mk/spec-x86_64.mk
index 6cd035baf..9099190c9 100644
--- a/base/mk/spec-x86_64.mk
+++ b/base/mk/spec-x86_64.mk
@@ -11,4 +11,14 @@ REP_INC_DIR += include/x86_64
 
 CC_MARCH ?= -m64
 
+#
+# Avoid wasting almost 4 MiB by telling the linker that the max page size is
+# 4K. Otherwise, the linker would align the text segment to a 4M boundary,
+# effectively adding 4M of zeros to each binary.
+#
+# See http://sourceware.org/ml/binutils/2009-04/msg00099.html
+#
+LD_MARCH ?= -melf_x86_64 -z max-page-size=0x1000
+
+
 include $(call select_from_repositories,mk/spec-64bit.mk)