diff --git a/tools/include/nolibc/sys.h b/tools/include/nolibc/sys.h
index 33f9c970ae57..548f94d96ed2 100644
--- a/tools/include/nolibc/sys.h
+++ b/tools/include/nolibc/sys.h
@@ -70,6 +70,17 @@ static __inline__ int __nolibc_enosys(const char *syscall, ...)
 }
 #endif
 
+
+/*
+ * Helper for 32-bit machines where a 64-bit syscall arg needs to be split into
+ * two 32-bit parts while making sure the order of the low/high parts are correct
+ * for the endianness:
+ * __NOLIBC_LLARGPART(x, 0), __NOLIBC_LLARGPART(x, 1)
+ */
+#define __NOLIBC_LLARGPART(_arg, _part) \
+	(((union { long long ll; long l[2]; }) { .ll = _arg }).l[_part])
+
+
 /* Functions in this file only describe syscalls. They're declared static so
  * that the compiler usually decides to inline them while still being allowed
  * to pass a pointer to one of their instances. Each syscall exists in two