diff --git a/linux/linux-tool-perf.mk b/linux/linux-tool-perf.mk
index 07c3514381..1070a1c098 100644
--- a/linux/linux-tool-perf.mk
+++ b/linux/linux-tool-perf.mk
@@ -27,6 +27,19 @@ PERF_MAKE_FLAGS = \
 	WERROR=0 \
 	ASCIIDOC=
 
+# We need to pass an argument to ld for setting the endianness when
+# building it for MIPS architecture, otherwise the default one will
+# always be used (which is big endian) and the compilation for little
+# endian will always fail showing an error like this one:
+#  LD    foo.o
+# mips-linux-gnu-ld: foo.o: compiled for a little endian system and
+# target is big endian
+ifeq ($(BR2_mips)$(BR2_mips64),y)
+PERF_MAKE_FLAGS += LD="$(TARGET_LD) -EB"
+else ifeq ($(BR2_mipsel)$(BR2_mips64el),y)
+PERF_MAKE_FLAGS += LD="$(TARGET_LD) -EL"
+endif
+
 # The call to backtrace() function fails for ARC, because for some
 # reason the unwinder from libgcc returns early. Thus the usage of
 # backtrace() should be disabled in perf explicitly: at build time