diff --git a/include/uapi/asm-generic/bitsperlong.h b/include/uapi/asm-generic/bitsperlong.h
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+#ifndef _UAPI__ASM_GENERIC_BITS_PER_LONG
+#define _UAPI__ASM_GENERIC_BITS_PER_LONG
+
+/*
+ * There seems to be no way of detecting this automatically from user
+ * space, so 64 bit architectures should override this in their
+ * bitsperlong.h. In particular, an architecture that supports
+ * both 32 and 64 bit user space must not rely on CONFIG_64BIT
+ * to decide it, but rather check a compiler provided macro.
+ */
+#ifndef __BITS_PER_LONG
+#define __BITS_PER_LONG 32
+#endif
+
+#endif /* _UAPI__ASM_GENERIC_BITS_PER_LONG */