diff --git a/include/linux/time64.h b/include/linux/time64.h
index 93d39499838e..0d96887ba4e0 100644
--- a/include/linux/time64.h
+++ b/include/linux/time64.h
@@ -2,12 +2,20 @@
 #ifndef _LINUX_TIME64_H
 #define _LINUX_TIME64_H
 
-#include <uapi/linux/time.h>
 #include <linux/math64.h>
 
 typedef __s64 time64_t;
 typedef __u64 timeu64_t;
 
+/* CONFIG_64BIT_TIME enables new 64 bit time_t syscalls in the compat path
+ * and 32-bit emulation.
+ */
+#ifndef CONFIG_64BIT_TIME
+#define __kernel_timespec timespec
+#endif
+
+#include <uapi/linux/time.h>
+
 #if __BITS_PER_LONG == 64
 /* this trick allows us to optimize out timespec64_to_timespec */
 # define timespec64 timespec
diff --git a/include/uapi/asm-generic/posix_types.h b/include/uapi/asm-generic/posix_types.h
index 5e6ea22bd525..f0733a26ebfc 100644
--- a/include/uapi/asm-generic/posix_types.h
+++ b/include/uapi/asm-generic/posix_types.h
@@ -87,6 +87,7 @@ typedef struct {
 typedef __kernel_long_t	__kernel_off_t;
 typedef long long	__kernel_loff_t;
 typedef __kernel_long_t	__kernel_time_t;
+typedef long long __kernel_time64_t;
 typedef __kernel_long_t	__kernel_clock_t;
 typedef int		__kernel_timer_t;
 typedef int		__kernel_clockid_t;
diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/time.h b/include/uapi/linux/time.h
index 16a296612ba4..94adfae599e0 100644
--- a/include/uapi/linux/time.h
+++ b/include/uapi/linux/time.h
@@ -42,6 +42,13 @@ struct itimerval {
 	struct timeval it_value;	/* current value */
 };
 
+#ifndef __kernel_timespec
+struct __kernel_timespec {
+	__kernel_time64_t       tv_sec;                 /* seconds */
+	long long               tv_nsec;                /* nanoseconds */
+};
+#endif
+
 /*
  * legacy timeval structure, only embedded in structures that
  * traditionally used 'timeval' to pass time intervals (not absolute