diff --git a/reverie-ptrace/src/task.rs b/reverie-ptrace/src/task.rs
index 8e4f1de..c3b8ad3 100644
--- a/reverie-ptrace/src/task.rs
+++ b/reverie-ptrace/src/task.rs
@@ -1485,16 +1485,24 @@ impl<L: Tool + 'static> TracedTask<L> {
     ///  Set tracee state to Stopped/SIGTRP.
     ///  Restore the registers to the state specified by the regs arg.
     async fn skip_seccomp_syscall(&mut self, task: Stopped) -> Result<Stopped, TraceError> {
-        let regs = task.getregs()?;
-
         // So here we are, at ptrace seccomp stop, if we simply resume, the kernel
         // would do the syscall, without our patch. we change to syscall number to
         // -1, so that kernel would simply skip the syscall, so that we can jump to
         // our patched syscall on the first run. Please note after calling this
         // function, the task state will no longer be in ptrace event seccomp.
-        let mut new_regs = regs;
-        *new_regs.orig_syscall_mut() = -1i64 as u64;
-        task.setregs(new_regs)?;
+        #[cfg(target_arch = "x86_64")]
+        let regs = task.getregs()?;
+
+        #[cfg(target_arch = "x86_64")]
+        {
+            let mut new_regs = regs;
+            *new_regs.orig_syscall_mut() = -1i64 as u64;
+            task.setregs(new_regs)?;
+        }
+
+        #[cfg(target_arch = "aarch64")]
+        task.set_syscall(-1)?;
+
         let mut running = task.step(None)?;
 
         // After the step, wait for the next transition. Note that this can return
@@ -1503,6 +1511,7 @@ impl<L: Tool + 'static> TracedTask<L> {
         loop {
             match running.next_state().await? {
                 Wait::Stopped(task, Event::Signal(Signal::SIGTRAP)) => {
+                    #[cfg(target_arch = "x86_64")]
                     task.setregs(regs)?;
                     break Ok(task);
                 }
diff --git a/safeptrace/src/lib.rs b/safeptrace/src/lib.rs
index 67e942b..2cea566 100644
--- a/safeptrace/src/lib.rs
+++ b/safeptrace/src/lib.rs
@@ -600,6 +600,23 @@ impl Stopped {
         Ok(Running::new(self.0))
     }
 
+    /// Sets the syscall to be executed. Only available on `aarch64`.
+    ///
+    /// Normally, on x86_64, the register `orig_rax` should be set instead to
+    /// modify the syscall number, which typically involves 3 ptrace calls:
+    ///  1. getregs to get the current registers.
+    ///  2. setregs to change `orig_rax` to set the syscall number.
+    ///  3. setregs again to restore the original registers after the syscall
+    ///     has been executed.
+    ///
+    /// `set_syscall` on `aarch64` has the advantage of only requiring a single
+    /// ptrace call.
+    #[cfg(target_arch = "aarch64")]
+    pub fn set_syscall(&self, nr: i32) -> Result<(), Error> {
+        const NT_ARM_SYSTEM_CALL: i32 = 0x404;
+        self.setregset(NT_ARM_SYSTEM_CALL, nr)
+    }
+
     /// Gets info about the signal that caused the process to be stopped.
     pub fn getsiginfo(&self) -> Result<libc::siginfo_t, Error> {
         ptrace::getsiginfo(self.0.into()).map_err(|err| self.map_nix_err(err))