diff --git a/arch/powerpc/platforms/powernv/setup.c b/arch/powerpc/platforms/powernv/setup.c
index 77a31c1474a58e3ca1c3ec7664e86107b11e1f29..685b3cbe1362c0b6f06f9edb2354c5cc3eb51390 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/platforms/powernv/setup.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/platforms/powernv/setup.c
@@ -235,6 +235,13 @@ static void pnv_kexec_cpu_down(int crash_shutdown, int secondary)
 	} else {
 		/* Primary waits for the secondaries to have reached OPAL */
 		pnv_kexec_wait_secondaries_down();
+
+		/*
+		 * We might be running as little-endian - now that interrupts
+		 * are disabled, reset the HILE bit to big-endian so we don't
+		 * take interrupts in the wrong endian later
+		 */
+		opal_reinit_cpus(OPAL_REINIT_CPUS_HILE_BE);
 	}
 }
 #endif /* CONFIG_KEXEC */