diff --git a/mercurial/registrar.py b/mercurial/registrar.py
--- a/mercurial/registrar.py
+++ b/mercurial/registrar.py
@@ -108,6 +108,9 @@ class revsetpredicate(_funcregistrarbase
     Optional argument 'safe' indicates whether a predicate is safe for
     DoS attack (False by default).
 
+    Optional argument 'takeorder' indicates whether a predicate function
+    takes ordering policy as the last argument.
+
     'revsetpredicate' instance in example above can be used to
     decorate multiple functions.
 
@@ -120,8 +123,9 @@ class revsetpredicate(_funcregistrarbase
     _getname = _funcregistrarbase._parsefuncdecl
     _docformat = "``%s``\n    %s"
 
-    def _extrasetup(self, name, func, safe=False):
+    def _extrasetup(self, name, func, safe=False, takeorder=False):
         func._safe = safe
+        func._takeorder = takeorder
 
 class filesetpredicate(_funcregistrarbase):
     """Decorator to register fileset predicate
diff --git a/mercurial/revset.py b/mercurial/revset.py
--- a/mercurial/revset.py
+++ b/mercurial/revset.py
@@ -422,7 +422,10 @@ def keyvaluepair(repo, subset, k, v):
 def func(repo, subset, a, b, order):
     f = getsymbol(a)
     if f in symbols:
-        return symbols[f](repo, subset, b)
+        fn = symbols[f]
+        if getattr(fn, '_takeorder', False):
+            return fn(repo, subset, b, order)
+        return fn(repo, subset, b)
 
     keep = lambda fn: getattr(fn, '__doc__', None) is not None