diff --git a/tools/perf/util/evsel.c b/tools/perf/util/evsel.c
index 4718f0a460df..1cf044cbae36 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/evsel.c
+++ b/tools/perf/util/evsel.c
@@ -36,6 +36,7 @@
 #include "debug.h"
 #include "trace-event.h"
 #include "stat.h"
+#include "memswap.h"
 #include "util/parse-branch-options.h"
 
 #include "sane_ctype.h"
@@ -2131,14 +2132,27 @@ int perf_evsel__parse_sample(struct perf_evsel *evsel, union perf_event *event,
 	if (type & PERF_SAMPLE_RAW) {
 		OVERFLOW_CHECK_u64(array);
 		u.val64 = *array;
-		if (WARN_ONCE(swapped,
-			      "Endianness of raw data not corrected!\n")) {
-			/* undo swap of u64, then swap on individual u32s */
+
+		/*
+		 * Undo swap of u64, then swap on individual u32s,
+		 * get the size of the raw area and undo all of the
+		 * swap. The pevent interface handles endianity by
+		 * itself.
+		 */
+		if (swapped) {
 			u.val64 = bswap_64(u.val64);
 			u.val32[0] = bswap_32(u.val32[0]);
 			u.val32[1] = bswap_32(u.val32[1]);
 		}
 		data->raw_size = u.val32[0];
+
+		/*
+		 * The raw data is aligned on 64bits including the
+		 * u32 size, so it's safe to use mem_bswap_64.
+		 */
+		if (swapped)
+			mem_bswap_64((void *) array, data->raw_size);
+
 		array = (void *)array + sizeof(u32);
 
 		OVERFLOW_CHECK(array, data->raw_size, max_size);
diff --git a/tools/perf/util/python-ext-sources b/tools/perf/util/python-ext-sources
index b4f2f06722a7..7aa0ea64544e 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/python-ext-sources
+++ b/tools/perf/util/python-ext-sources
@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@ util/ctype.c
 util/evlist.c
 util/evsel.c
 util/cpumap.c
+util/memswap.c
 util/mmap.c
 util/namespaces.c
 ../lib/bitmap.c