diff --git a/llvm/include/llvm/Object/ELF.h b/llvm/include/llvm/Object/ELF.h
index bc9cc673cb12fc..a9989c2a800792 100644
--- a/llvm/include/llvm/Object/ELF.h
+++ b/llvm/include/llvm/Object/ELF.h
@@ -317,6 +317,11 @@ class ELFFile {
 
   ELFFile(MemoryBuffer *Object, error_code &ec);
 
+  bool isMipsELF64() const {
+    return Header->e_machine == ELF::EM_MIPS &&
+      Header->getFileClass() == ELF::ELFCLASS64;
+  }
+
   bool isMips64EL() const {
     return Header->e_machine == ELF::EM_MIPS &&
       Header->getFileClass() == ELF::ELFCLASS64 &&
@@ -537,10 +542,16 @@ StringRef ELFFile<ELFT>::getRelocationTypeName(uint32_t Type) const {
 template <class ELFT>
 void ELFFile<ELFT>::getRelocationTypeName(uint32_t Type,
                                           SmallVectorImpl<char> &Result) const {
-  if (!isMips64EL()) {
+  if (!isMipsELF64()) {
     StringRef Name = getRelocationTypeName(Type);
     Result.append(Name.begin(), Name.end());
   } else {
+    // The Mips N64 ABI allows up to three operations to be specified per
+    // relocation record. Unfortunately there's no easy way to test for the
+    // presence of N64 ELFs as they have no special flag that identifies them
+    // as being N64. We can safely assume at the moment that all Mips
+    // ELFCLASS64 ELFs are N64. New Mips64 ABIs should provide enough
+    // information to disambiguate between old vs new ABIs.
     uint8_t Type1 = (Type >> 0) & 0xFF;
     uint8_t Type2 = (Type >> 8) & 0xFF;
     uint8_t Type3 = (Type >> 16) & 0xFF;
diff --git a/llvm/test/MC/Mips/elf-N64.s b/llvm/test/MC/Mips/elf-N64.s
index 3c01803d2a9b9a..bf6ebd73091391 100644
--- a/llvm/test/MC/Mips/elf-N64.s
+++ b/llvm/test/MC/Mips/elf-N64.s
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 // RUN: llvm-mc -filetype=obj -triple=mips64el-pc-linux -mcpu=mips64  %s -o - | llvm-readobj -r | FileCheck %s
+// RUN: llvm-mc -filetype=obj -triple=mips64-pc-linux -mcpu=mips64  %s -o - | llvm-readobj -r | FileCheck %s
 
 // Check for N64 relocation production.
 // Check that the appropriate relocations were created.
diff --git a/llvm/test/MC/Mips/elf-gprel-32-64.s b/llvm/test/MC/Mips/elf-gprel-32-64.s
index ae75197a4fc773..2f5ac6652a33dd 100644
--- a/llvm/test/MC/Mips/elf-gprel-32-64.s
+++ b/llvm/test/MC/Mips/elf-gprel-32-64.s
@@ -1,6 +1,9 @@
 // RUN: llvm-mc -filetype=obj -triple=mips64el-pc-linux -mcpu=mips64 %s -o - \
 // RUN: | llvm-readobj -r \
 // RUN: | FileCheck %s
+// RUN: llvm-mc -filetype=obj -triple=mips64-pc-linux -mcpu=mips64 %s -o - \
+// RUN: | llvm-readobj -r \
+// RUN: | FileCheck %s
 
 // Check that the appropriate relocations were created.