diff --git a/userspace-rcu-aarch64.patch b/userspace-rcu-aarch64.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..1113021
--- /dev/null
+++ b/userspace-rcu-aarch64.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,25 @@
+Index: userspace-rcu-0.8.1/configure
+===================================================================
+--- userspace-rcu-0.8.1.orig/configure
++++ userspace-rcu-0.8.1/configure
+@@ -12685,6 +12685,8 @@ case $host_cpu in #(
+     ARCHTYPE="mips" ;; #(
+   tile*) :
+     ARCHTYPE="gcc" ;; #(
++  aarch64) :
++    ARCHTYPE="gcc" ;; #(
+   *) :
+     ARCHTYPE="unknown"
+  ;;
+Index: userspace-rcu-0.8.1/configure.ac
+===================================================================
+--- userspace-rcu-0.8.1.orig/configure.ac
++++ userspace-rcu-0.8.1/configure.ac
+@@ -79,6 +79,7 @@ AS_CASE([$host_cpu],
+ 	[arm*], [ARCHTYPE="arm"],
+ 	[mips*], [ARCHTYPE="mips"],
+ 	[tile*], [ARCHTYPE="gcc"],
++	[aarch64], [ARCHTYPE="gcc"],
+ 	[ARCHTYPE="unknown"]
+ )
+ 
diff --git a/userspace-rcu.spec b/userspace-rcu.spec
index 0f34760..79ed586 100644
--- a/userspace-rcu.spec
+++ b/userspace-rcu.spec
@@ -1,12 +1,13 @@
 Name:           userspace-rcu
 Version:        0.8.1
-Release:        1%{?dist}
+Release:        2%{?dist}
 Summary:        RCU (read-copy-update) implementation in user space
 
 Group:          System Environment/Libraries
 License:        LGPLv2+
 URL:            http://lttng.org/urcu/
 Source0:        http://lttng.org/files/urcu/%{name}-%{version}.tar.bz2
+Patch0:         userspace-rcu-aarch64.patch
 BuildRequires:  pkgconfig 
 # Upstream do not yet support mips
 ExcludeArch:    mips
@@ -30,6 +31,7 @@ developing applications that use %{name}.
 
 %prep
 %setup -q
+%patch0 -p1
 
 
 %build
@@ -70,6 +72,9 @@ rm -vf $RPM_BUILD_ROOT%{_libdir}/*.la
 
 
 %changelog
+* Thu May 22 2014 Marcin Juszkiewicz <mjuszkiewicz@redhat.com> - 0.8.1-2
+- Added AArch64 support
+
 * Mon Feb 10 2014 Yannick Brosseau <yannick.brosseau@gmail.com> 0.8.1-1
 - New upstream release