diff --git a/arch/um/include/asm/syscall-generic.h b/arch/um/include/asm/syscall-generic.h
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..9fb9cf8cd39a3b29f45a80d1a4281d2abd82a262
--- /dev/null
+++ b/arch/um/include/asm/syscall-generic.h
@@ -0,0 +1,138 @@
+/*
+ * Access to user system call parameters and results
+ *
+ * See asm-generic/syscall.h for function descriptions.
+ *
+ * Copyright (C) 2015 Mickaël Salaün <mic@digikod.net>
+ *
+ * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
+ * it under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2 as
+ * published by the Free Software Foundation.
+ */
+
+#ifndef __UM_SYSCALL_GENERIC_H
+#define __UM_SYSCALL_GENERIC_H
+
+#include <asm/ptrace.h>
+#include <linux/err.h>
+#include <linux/sched.h>
+#include <sysdep/ptrace.h>
+
+static inline int syscall_get_nr(struct task_struct *task, struct pt_regs *regs)
+{
+
+	return PT_REGS_SYSCALL_NR(regs);
+}
+
+static inline void syscall_rollback(struct task_struct *task,
+				    struct pt_regs *regs)
+{
+	/* do nothing */
+}
+
+static inline long syscall_get_error(struct task_struct *task,
+				     struct pt_regs *regs)
+{
+	const long error = regs_return_value(regs);
+
+	return IS_ERR_VALUE(error) ? error : 0;
+}
+
+static inline long syscall_get_return_value(struct task_struct *task,
+					    struct pt_regs *regs)
+{
+	return regs_return_value(regs);
+}
+
+static inline void syscall_set_return_value(struct task_struct *task,
+					    struct pt_regs *regs,
+					    int error, long val)
+{
+	PT_REGS_SET_SYSCALL_RETURN(regs, (long) error ?: val);
+}
+
+static inline void syscall_get_arguments(struct task_struct *task,
+					 struct pt_regs *regs,
+					 unsigned int i, unsigned int n,
+					 unsigned long *args)
+{
+	const struct uml_pt_regs *r = &regs->regs;
+
+	switch (i) {
+	case 0:
+		if (!n--)
+			break;
+		*args++ = UPT_SYSCALL_ARG1(r);
+	case 1:
+		if (!n--)
+			break;
+		*args++ = UPT_SYSCALL_ARG2(r);
+	case 2:
+		if (!n--)
+			break;
+		*args++ = UPT_SYSCALL_ARG3(r);
+	case 3:
+		if (!n--)
+			break;
+		*args++ = UPT_SYSCALL_ARG4(r);
+	case 4:
+		if (!n--)
+			break;
+		*args++ = UPT_SYSCALL_ARG5(r);
+	case 5:
+		if (!n--)
+			break;
+		*args++ = UPT_SYSCALL_ARG6(r);
+	case 6:
+		if (!n--)
+			break;
+	default:
+		BUG();
+		break;
+	}
+}
+
+static inline void syscall_set_arguments(struct task_struct *task,
+					 struct pt_regs *regs,
+					 unsigned int i, unsigned int n,
+					 const unsigned long *args)
+{
+	struct uml_pt_regs *r = &regs->regs;
+
+	switch (i) {
+	case 0:
+		if (!n--)
+			break;
+		UPT_SYSCALL_ARG1(r) = *args++;
+	case 1:
+		if (!n--)
+			break;
+		UPT_SYSCALL_ARG2(r) = *args++;
+	case 2:
+		if (!n--)
+			break;
+		UPT_SYSCALL_ARG3(r) = *args++;
+	case 3:
+		if (!n--)
+			break;
+		UPT_SYSCALL_ARG4(r) = *args++;
+	case 4:
+		if (!n--)
+			break;
+		UPT_SYSCALL_ARG5(r) = *args++;
+	case 5:
+		if (!n--)
+			break;
+		UPT_SYSCALL_ARG6(r) = *args++;
+	case 6:
+		if (!n--)
+			break;
+	default:
+		BUG();
+		break;
+	}
+}
+
+/* See arch/x86/um/asm/syscall.h for syscall_get_arch() definition. */
+
+#endif	/* __UM_SYSCALL_GENERIC_H */
diff --git a/arch/x86/um/asm/syscall.h b/arch/x86/um/asm/syscall.h
index 81d6562ce01d5ce52294691e03555c1b4cf3e10f..11ab90dc5f14e95b521ee389e800f8abcfba0ca6 100644
--- a/arch/x86/um/asm/syscall.h
+++ b/arch/x86/um/asm/syscall.h
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 #ifndef __UM_ASM_SYSCALL_H
 #define __UM_ASM_SYSCALL_H
 
+#include <asm/syscall-generic.h>
 #include <uapi/linux/audit.h>
 
 typedef asmlinkage long (*sys_call_ptr_t)(unsigned long, unsigned long,