diff --git a/sysdeps/linux-gnu/arm/trace.c b/sysdeps/linux-gnu/arm/trace.c
index f974d1f..8526bf1 100644
--- a/sysdeps/linux-gnu/arm/trace.c
+++ b/sysdeps/linux-gnu/arm/trace.c
@@ -77,6 +77,15 @@ syscall_p(struct process *proc, int status, int *sysnum)
 		unsigned insn = ptrace(PTRACE_PEEKTEXT, proc->pid,
 				       (void *)pc, 0);
 
+#if defined(__ARMEB__) && defined(__ARM_ARCH_7A__)
+               /* We running big endian arm on ARMv7: instructions are
+                * in little endian form so we need to byteswap it. Note
+                * on older ARM like V5 Xscale code is in big endian form
+                * byte swap is not needed in this case. I.e be8 vs be32.
+                */
+		insn = __builtin_bswap32(insn);
+#endif /*  __ARMEB__ && __ARM_ARCH_7A__ */
+
 		if (insn == 0xef000000 || insn == 0x0f000000
 		    || (insn & 0xffff0000) == 0xdf000000) {
 			/* EABI syscall */