diff --git a/drivers/devfreq/event/exynos-ppmu.c b/drivers/devfreq/event/exynos-ppmu.c
index 1756c6b5cb09..87b42055e6bc 100644
--- a/drivers/devfreq/event/exynos-ppmu.c
+++ b/drivers/devfreq/event/exynos-ppmu.c
@@ -164,9 +164,9 @@ static int exynos_ppmu_set_event(struct devfreq_event_dev *edev)
 	if (ret < 0)
 		return ret;
 
-	/* Set the event of Read/Write data count  */
+	/* Set the event of proper data type monitoring */
 	ret = regmap_write(info->regmap, PPMU_BEVTxSEL(id),
-				PPMU_RO_DATA_CNT | PPMU_WO_DATA_CNT);
+			   edev->desc->event_type);
 	if (ret < 0)
 		return ret;
 
@@ -378,23 +378,11 @@ static int exynos_ppmu_v2_set_event(struct devfreq_event_dev *edev)
 	if (ret < 0)
 		return ret;
 
-	/* Set the event of Read/Write data count  */
-	switch (id) {
-	case PPMU_PMNCNT0:
-	case PPMU_PMNCNT1:
-	case PPMU_PMNCNT2:
-		ret = regmap_write(info->regmap, PPMU_V2_CH_EVx_TYPE(id),
-				PPMU_V2_RO_DATA_CNT | PPMU_V2_WO_DATA_CNT);
-		if (ret < 0)
-			return ret;
-		break;
-	case PPMU_PMNCNT3:
-		ret = regmap_write(info->regmap, PPMU_V2_CH_EVx_TYPE(id),
-				PPMU_V2_EVT3_RW_DATA_CNT);
-		if (ret < 0)
-			return ret;
-		break;
-	}
+	/* Set the event of proper data type monitoring */
+	ret = regmap_write(info->regmap, PPMU_V2_CH_EVx_TYPE(id),
+			   edev->desc->event_type);
+	if (ret < 0)
+		return ret;
 
 	/* Reset cycle counter/performance counter and enable PPMU */
 	ret = regmap_read(info->regmap, PPMU_V2_PMNC, &pmnc);
@@ -510,6 +498,7 @@ static int of_get_devfreq_events(struct device_node *np,
 	struct device_node *events_np, *node;
 	int i, j, count;
 	const struct of_device_id *of_id;
+	int ret;
 
 	events_np = of_get_child_by_name(np, "events");
 	if (!events_np) {
@@ -559,6 +548,39 @@ static int of_get_devfreq_events(struct device_node *np,
 		desc[j].driver_data = info;
 
 		of_property_read_string(node, "event-name", &desc[j].name);
+		ret = of_property_read_u32(node, "event-data-type",
+					   &desc[j].event_type);
+		if (ret) {
+			/* Set the event of proper data type counting.
+			 * Check if the data type has been defined in DT,
+			 * use default if not.
+			 */
+			if (info->ppmu_type == EXYNOS_TYPE_PPMU_V2) {
+				struct devfreq_event_dev edev;
+				int id;
+				/* Not all registers take the same value for
+				 * read+write data count.
+				 */
+				edev.desc = &desc[j];
+				id = exynos_ppmu_find_ppmu_id(&edev);
+
+				switch (id) {
+				case PPMU_PMNCNT0:
+				case PPMU_PMNCNT1:
+				case PPMU_PMNCNT2:
+					desc[j].event_type = PPMU_V2_RO_DATA_CNT
+						| PPMU_V2_WO_DATA_CNT;
+					break;
+				case PPMU_PMNCNT3:
+					desc[j].event_type =
+						PPMU_V2_EVT3_RW_DATA_CNT;
+					break;
+				}
+			} else {
+				desc[j].event_type = PPMU_RO_DATA_CNT |
+					PPMU_WO_DATA_CNT;
+			}
+		}
 
 		j++;
 	}
diff --git a/include/linux/devfreq-event.h b/include/linux/devfreq-event.h
index 29fc0dd735ae..f14f17f8cb7f 100644
--- a/include/linux/devfreq-event.h
+++ b/include/linux/devfreq-event.h
@@ -78,14 +78,20 @@ struct devfreq_event_ops {
  * struct devfreq_event_desc - the descriptor of devfreq-event device
  *
  * @name	: the name of devfreq-event device.
+ * @event_type	: the type of the event determined and used by driver
  * @driver_data	: the private data for devfreq-event driver.
  * @ops		: the operation to control devfreq-event device.
  *
  * Each devfreq-event device is described with a this structure.
  * This structure contains the various data for devfreq-event device.
+ * The event_type describes what is going to be counted in the register.
+ * It might choose to count e.g. read requests, write data in bytes, etc.
+ * The full supported list of types is present in specyfic header in:
+ * include/dt-bindings/pmu/.
  */
 struct devfreq_event_desc {
 	const char *name;
+	u32 event_type;
 	void *driver_data;
 
 	const struct devfreq_event_ops *ops;