diff --git a/arch/Kconfig b/arch/Kconfig
index 1aa59063f1fd..5c7c48e7b727 100644
--- a/arch/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/Kconfig
@@ -971,4 +971,12 @@ config REFCOUNT_FULL
 	  against various use-after-free conditions that can be used in
 	  security flaw exploits.
 
+config HAVE_ARCH_COMPILER_H
+	bool
+	help
+	  An architecture can select this if it provides an
+	  asm/compiler.h header that should be included after
+	  linux/compiler-*.h in order to override macro definitions that those
+	  headers generally provide.
+
 source "kernel/gcov/Kconfig"
diff --git a/include/linux/compiler_types.h b/include/linux/compiler_types.h
index 6b79a9bba9a7..4be464a07612 100644
--- a/include/linux/compiler_types.h
+++ b/include/linux/compiler_types.h
@@ -78,6 +78,18 @@ extern void __chk_io_ptr(const volatile void __iomem *);
 #include <linux/compiler-clang.h>
 #endif
 
+/*
+ * Some architectures need to provide custom definitions of macros provided
+ * by linux/compiler-*.h, and can do so using asm/compiler.h. We include that
+ * conditionally rather than using an asm-generic wrapper in order to avoid
+ * build failures if any C compilation, which will include this file via an
+ * -include argument in c_flags, occurs prior to the asm-generic wrappers being
+ * generated.
+ */
+#ifdef CONFIG_HAVE_ARCH_COMPILER_H
+#include <asm/compiler.h>
+#endif
+
 /*
  * Generic compiler-dependent macros required for kernel
  * build go below this comment. Actual compiler/compiler version