diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/syscall-user-dispatch.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/syscall-user-dispatch.rst
index 60314953c728..a23ae21a1d5b 100644
--- a/Documentation/admin-guide/syscall-user-dispatch.rst
+++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/syscall-user-dispatch.rst
@@ -43,7 +43,10 @@ doesn't rely on any of the syscall ABI to make the filtering.  It uses
 only the syscall dispatcher address and the userspace key.
 
 As the ABI of these intercepted syscalls is unknown to Linux, these
-syscalls are not instrumentable via ptrace or the syscall tracepoints.
+syscalls are not instrumentable via ptrace or the syscall tracepoints,
+however an interfaces to suspend, checkpoint, and restore syscall user
+dispatch configuration has been added to ptrace to assist userland
+checkpoint/restart software.
 
 Interface
 ---------
diff --git a/include/linux/syscall_user_dispatch.h b/include/linux/syscall_user_dispatch.h
index a0ae443fb7df..9e1bd0d87c1e 100644
--- a/include/linux/syscall_user_dispatch.h
+++ b/include/linux/syscall_user_dispatch.h
@@ -22,6 +22,13 @@ int set_syscall_user_dispatch(unsigned long mode, unsigned long offset,
 #define clear_syscall_work_syscall_user_dispatch(tsk) \
 	clear_task_syscall_work(tsk, SYSCALL_USER_DISPATCH)
 
+int syscall_user_dispatch_get_config(struct task_struct *task, unsigned long size,
+	void __user *data);
+
+int syscall_user_dispatch_set_config(struct task_struct *task, unsigned long size,
+	void __user *data);
+
+
 #else
 struct syscall_user_dispatch {};
 
@@ -35,6 +42,18 @@ static inline void clear_syscall_work_syscall_user_dispatch(struct task_struct *
 {
 }
 
+static inline int syscall_user_dispatch_get_config(struct task_struct *task, unsigned long size,
+	void __user *data)
+{
+	return -EINVAL;
+}
+
+static inline int syscall_user_dispatch_set_config(struct task_struct *task, unsigned long size,
+	void __user *data)
+{
+	return -EINVAL;
+}
+
 #endif /* CONFIG_GENERIC_ENTRY */
 
 #endif /* _SYSCALL_USER_DISPATCH_H */
diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/ptrace.h b/include/uapi/linux/ptrace.h
index ba9e3f19a22c..8b93c78189b5 100644
--- a/include/uapi/linux/ptrace.h
+++ b/include/uapi/linux/ptrace.h
@@ -112,6 +112,16 @@ struct ptrace_rseq_configuration {
 	__u32 pad;
 };
 
+#define PTRACE_SET_SYSCALL_USER_DISPATCH_CONFIG 0x4210
+#define PTRACE_GET_SYSCALL_USER_DISPATCH_CONFIG 0x4211
+struct syscall_user_dispatch_config {
+	__u64 mode;
+	__s8 *selector;
+	__u64 offset;
+	__u64 len;
+	__u8 on_dispatch;
+};
+
 /*
  * These values are stored in task->ptrace_message
  * by ptrace_stop to describe the current syscall-stop.
diff --git a/kernel/entry/syscall_user_dispatch.c b/kernel/entry/syscall_user_dispatch.c
index b5ec75164805..a3b24d498b39 100644
--- a/kernel/entry/syscall_user_dispatch.c
+++ b/kernel/entry/syscall_user_dispatch.c
@@ -111,3 +111,52 @@ int set_syscall_user_dispatch(unsigned long mode, unsigned long offset,
 
 	return 0;
 }
+
+int syscall_user_dispatch_get_config(struct task_struct *task, unsigned long size,
+		void __user *data)
+{
+	struct syscall_user_dispatch *sd = &task->syscall_dispatch;
+	struct syscall_user_dispatch_config config;
+
+	if (size != sizeof(struct syscall_user_dispatch_config))
+		return -EINVAL;
+
+	if (sd->selector) {
+		config.mode = PR_SYS_DISPATCH_ON;
+		config.offset = sd->offset;
+		config.len = sd->len;
+		config.selector = sd->selector;
+		config.on_dispatch = sd->on_dispatch;
+	} else {
+		config.mode = PR_SYS_DISPATCH_OFF;
+		config.offset = 0;
+		config.len = 0;
+		config.selector = NULL;
+		config.on_dispatch = false;
+	}
+	if (copy_to_user(data, &config, sizeof(config)))
+		return -EFAULT;
+
+	return 0;
+}
+
+int syscall_user_dispatch_set_config(struct task_struct *task, unsigned long size,
+		void __user *data)
+{
+	struct syscall_user_dispatch_config config;
+	int ret;
+
+	if (size != sizeof(struct syscall_user_dispatch_config))
+		return -EINVAL;
+
+	if (copy_from_user(&config, data, sizeof(config)))
+		return -EFAULT;
+
+	ret = set_syscall_user_dispatch(config.mode, config.offset, config.len,
+			config.selector);
+	if (ret)
+		return ret;
+
+	task->syscall_dispatch.on_dispatch = config.on_dispatch;
+	return 0;
+}
diff --git a/kernel/ptrace.c b/kernel/ptrace.c
index 99467ba5f55b..d1e9c0808905 100644
--- a/kernel/ptrace.c
+++ b/kernel/ptrace.c
@@ -32,6 +32,7 @@
 #include <linux/compat.h>
 #include <linux/sched/signal.h>
 #include <linux/minmax.h>
+#include <linux/syscall_user_dispatch.h>
 
 #include <asm/syscall.h>	/* for syscall_get_* */
 
@@ -1263,6 +1264,14 @@ int ptrace_request(struct task_struct *child, long request,
 		break;
 #endif
 
+	case PTRACE_SET_SYSCALL_USER_DISPATCH_CONFIG:
+		ret = syscall_user_dispatch_set_config(child, addr, datavp);
+		break;
+
+	case PTRACE_GET_SYSCALL_USER_DISPATCH_CONFIG:
+		ret = syscall_user_dispatch_get_config(child, addr, datavp);
+		break;
+
 	default:
 		break;
 	}
