diff --git a/repos/base/mk/spec/arm.mk b/repos/base/mk/spec/arm.mk
index 713985ec16f..17442db08c5 100644
--- a/repos/base/mk/spec/arm.mk
+++ b/repos/base/mk/spec/arm.mk
@@ -11,4 +11,12 @@ SPECS += 32bit
 #
 CC_OPT += -Wno-psabi
 
+#
+# By default, the linker produces ELF binaries where the test segment is
+# aligned to the largest page size. On ARM this is 64K. As a result, the
+# produced binaries contain almost 64K zeros preceding the text segment.
+# The patch enforces the text segment to be aligned to 4K instead.
+#
+LD_MARCH += -z max-page-size=0x1000
+
 include $(call select_from_repositories,mk/spec/32bit.mk)