diff --git a/Cross.toml b/Cross.toml
index 2f786b461742..775ee7c82b0a 100644
--- a/Cross.toml
+++ b/Cross.toml
@@ -2,4 +2,9 @@
 pre-build = [
     # rust-bindgen dependencies: llvm-dev libclang-dev (>= 5.0) clang (>= 5.0)
     "apt-get update && apt-get install --assume-yes --no-install-recommends llvm-dev libclang-6.0-dev clang-6.0"
+]
+
+[build.env]
+passthrough = [
+    "JEMALLOC_SYS_WITH_LG_PAGE",
 ]
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/Dockerfile b/Dockerfile
index ab192886bf5c..5dac92bb9db7 100644
--- a/Dockerfile
+++ b/Dockerfile
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ RUN cargo chef cook --profile $BUILD_PROFILE --recipe-path recipe.json
 
 # Build application
 COPY . .
-RUN cargo build --profile $BUILD_PROFILE --features "$FEATURES" --no-default-features --locked --bin reth
+RUN cargo build --profile $BUILD_PROFILE --features "$FEATURES" --locked --bin reth
 
 # ARG is not resolved in COPY so we have to hack around it by copying the
 # binary to a temporary location
diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index c4b0f1e0033c..ac2a25bb5a2e 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -82,23 +82,29 @@ op-build-native-%:
 #
 # The resulting binaries will be created in the `target/` directory.
 
+# For aarch64, disable asm-keccak optimizations and set the page size for
+# jemalloc. When cross compiling, we must compile jemalloc with a large page
+# size, otherwise it will use the current system's page size which may not work
+# on other systems. JEMALLOC_SYS_WITH_LG_PAGE=16 tells jemalloc to use 64-KiB
+# pages. See: https://github.com/paradigmxyz/reth/issues/6742
+build-aarch64-unknown-linux-gnu: FEATURES := $(filter-out asm-keccak,$(FEATURES))
+build-aarch64-unknown-linux-gnu: export JEMALLOC_SYS_WITH_LG_PAGE=16
+
+op-build-aarch64-unknown-linux-gnu: FEATURES := $(filter-out asm-keccak,$(FEATURES))
+op-build-aarch64-unknown-linux-gnu: export JEMALLOC_SYS_WITH_LG_PAGE=16
+
 # No jemalloc on Windows
 build-x86_64-pc-windows-gnu: FEATURES := $(filter-out jemalloc jemalloc-prof,$(FEATURES))
 
-# Disable asm-keccak optimizations and jemalloc.
-# Some aarch64 systems use larger page sizes and jemalloc doesn't play well.
-# See: https://github.com/paradigmxyz/reth/issues/6742
-build-aarch64-unknown-linux-gnu: FEATURES := $(filter-out asm-keccak jemalloc jemalloc-prof,$(FEATURES))
-
 # Note: The additional rustc compiler flags are for intrinsics needed by MDBX.
 # See: https://github.com/cross-rs/cross/wiki/FAQ#undefined-reference-with-build-std
 build-%:
 	RUSTFLAGS="-C link-arg=-lgcc -Clink-arg=-static-libgcc" \
- 		cross build --bin reth --target $* --features "$(FEATURES)" --profile "$(PROFILE)"
+		cross build --bin reth --target $* --features "$(FEATURES)" --profile "$(PROFILE)"
 
 op-build-%:
 	RUSTFLAGS="-C link-arg=-lgcc -Clink-arg=-static-libgcc" \
- 		cross build --bin op-reth --target $* --features "optimism,$(FEATURES)" --profile "$(PROFILE)"
+		cross build --bin op-reth --target $* --features "optimism,$(FEATURES)" --profile "$(PROFILE)"
 
 # Unfortunately we can't easily use cross to build for Darwin because of licensing issues.
 # If we wanted to, we would need to build a custom Docker image with the SDK available.