diff --git a/arch/x86/Makefile b/arch/x86/Makefile
index 498c1b8123006add6ad685a1fea6239208509810..1c4d012550ec5fab1e2ae26b9cf8a67168da75fd 100644
--- a/arch/x86/Makefile
+++ b/arch/x86/Makefile
@@ -223,6 +223,15 @@ KBUILD_CFLAGS += $(cfi) $(cfi-sigframe) $(cfi-sections) $(asinstr) $(avx_instr)
 
 LDFLAGS := -m elf_$(UTS_MACHINE)
 
+#
+# The 64-bit kernel must be aligned to 2MB.  Pass -z max-page-size=0x200000 to
+# the linker to force 2MB page size regardless of the default page size used
+# by the linker.
+#
+ifdef CONFIG_X86_64
+LDFLAGS += $(call ld-option, -z max-page-size=0x200000)
+endif
+
 # Speed up the build
 KBUILD_CFLAGS += -pipe
 # Workaround for a gcc prelease that unfortunately was shipped in a suse release