diff --git a/linker/Android.mk b/linker/Android.mk
index c2d369e68..c6fb49d28 100644
--- a/linker/Android.mk
+++ b/linker/Android.mk
@@ -13,7 +13,12 @@ ifeq ($(TARGET_ARCH),sh)
 # SH-4A series virtual address range from 0x00000000 to 0x7FFFFFFF.
 LINKER_TEXT_BASE := 0x70000100
 else
-LINKER_TEXT_BASE := 0xB0000100
+# This is aligned to 4K page boundary so that both GNU ld and gold work.  Gold
+# actually produces a correct binary with starting adding 0xB0000100 but the
+# extra objcopy step to rename symbols causes the resulting binary to be misaligned
+# and unloadable.  Increasing the alignment adds an extra 3840 bytes in padding
+# but switching to gold saves about 1M of space.
+LINKER_TEXT_BASE := 0xB0001000
 endif
 
 # The maximum size set aside for the linker, from