diff --git a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-report.txt b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-report.txt
index af068b4f1e5a..aec34417090b 100644
--- a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-report.txt
+++ b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-report.txt
@@ -118,6 +118,7 @@ OPTIONS
 	- retire_lat: On X86, this reports pipeline stall of this instruction compared
 	  to the previous instruction in cycles. And currently supported only on X86
 	- simd: Flags describing a SIMD operation. "e" for empty Arm SVE predicate. "p" for partial Arm SVE predicate
+	- type: Data type of sample memory access.
 
 	By default, comm, dso and symbol keys are used.
 	(i.e. --sort comm,dso,symbol)
diff --git a/tools/perf/util/annotate-data.c b/tools/perf/util/annotate-data.c
index 23381c0a5d38..3e3a561d73e3 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/annotate-data.c
+++ b/tools/perf/util/annotate-data.c
@@ -17,6 +17,11 @@
 #include "strbuf.h"
 #include "symbol.h"
 
+/* Pseudo data types */
+struct annotated_data_type unknown_type = {
+	.type_name = (char *)"(unknown)",
+};
+
 /*
  * Compare type name and size to maintain them in a tree.
  * I'm not sure if DWARF would have information of a single type in many
diff --git a/tools/perf/util/annotate-data.h b/tools/perf/util/annotate-data.h
index ab9f187bd7f1..6efdd7e21b28 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/annotate-data.h
+++ b/tools/perf/util/annotate-data.h
@@ -22,6 +22,8 @@ struct annotated_data_type {
 	int type_size;
 };
 
+extern struct annotated_data_type unknown_type;
+
 #ifdef HAVE_DWARF_SUPPORT
 
 /* Returns data type at the location (ip, reg, offset) */
diff --git a/tools/perf/util/hist.h b/tools/perf/util/hist.h
index afc9f1c7f4dc..9bfed867f288 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/hist.h
+++ b/tools/perf/util/hist.h
@@ -82,6 +82,7 @@ enum hist_column {
 	HISTC_ADDR_TO,
 	HISTC_ADDR,
 	HISTC_SIMD,
+	HISTC_TYPE,
 	HISTC_NR_COLS, /* Last entry */
 };
 
diff --git a/tools/perf/util/sort.c b/tools/perf/util/sort.c
index 6aa1c7f2b444..c79564c1d5df 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/sort.c
+++ b/tools/perf/util/sort.c
@@ -24,6 +24,7 @@
 #include "strbuf.h"
 #include "mem-events.h"
 #include "annotate.h"
+#include "annotate-data.h"
 #include "event.h"
 #include "time-utils.h"
 #include "cgroup.h"
@@ -2094,7 +2095,7 @@ struct sort_entry sort_dso_size = {
 	.se_width_idx	= HISTC_DSO_SIZE,
 };
 
-/* --sort dso_size */
+/* --sort addr */
 
 static int64_t
 sort__addr_cmp(struct hist_entry *left, struct hist_entry *right)
@@ -2131,6 +2132,65 @@ struct sort_entry sort_addr = {
 	.se_width_idx	= HISTC_ADDR,
 };
 
+/* --sort type */
+
+static int64_t
+sort__type_cmp(struct hist_entry *left, struct hist_entry *right)
+{
+	return sort__addr_cmp(left, right);
+}
+
+static void sort__type_init(struct hist_entry *he)
+{
+	if (he->mem_type)
+		return;
+
+	he->mem_type = hist_entry__get_data_type(he);
+	if (he->mem_type == NULL)
+		he->mem_type = &unknown_type;
+}
+
+static int64_t
+sort__type_collapse(struct hist_entry *left, struct hist_entry *right)
+{
+	struct annotated_data_type *left_type = left->mem_type;
+	struct annotated_data_type *right_type = right->mem_type;
+
+	if (!left_type) {
+		sort__type_init(left);
+		left_type = left->mem_type;
+	}
+
+	if (!right_type) {
+		sort__type_init(right);
+		right_type = right->mem_type;
+	}
+
+	return strcmp(left_type->type_name, right_type->type_name);
+}
+
+static int64_t
+sort__type_sort(struct hist_entry *left, struct hist_entry *right)
+{
+	return sort__type_collapse(left, right);
+}
+
+static int hist_entry__type_snprintf(struct hist_entry *he, char *bf,
+				     size_t size, unsigned int width)
+{
+	return repsep_snprintf(bf, size, "%-*s", width, he->mem_type->type_name);
+}
+
+struct sort_entry sort_type = {
+	.se_header	= "Data Type",
+	.se_cmp		= sort__type_cmp,
+	.se_collapse	= sort__type_collapse,
+	.se_sort	= sort__type_sort,
+	.se_init	= sort__type_init,
+	.se_snprintf	= hist_entry__type_snprintf,
+	.se_width_idx	= HISTC_TYPE,
+};
+
 
 struct sort_dimension {
 	const char		*name;
@@ -2185,7 +2245,8 @@ static struct sort_dimension common_sort_dimensions[] = {
 	DIM(SORT_ADDR, "addr", sort_addr),
 	DIM(SORT_LOCAL_RETIRE_LAT, "local_retire_lat", sort_local_p_stage_cyc),
 	DIM(SORT_GLOBAL_RETIRE_LAT, "retire_lat", sort_global_p_stage_cyc),
-	DIM(SORT_SIMD, "simd", sort_simd)
+	DIM(SORT_SIMD, "simd", sort_simd),
+	DIM(SORT_ANNOTATE_DATA_TYPE, "type", sort_type),
 };
 
 #undef DIM
diff --git a/tools/perf/util/sort.h b/tools/perf/util/sort.h
index ecfb7f1359d5..aabf0b8331a3 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/sort.h
+++ b/tools/perf/util/sort.h
@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@
 
 struct option;
 struct thread;
+struct annotated_data_type;
 
 extern regex_t parent_regex;
 extern const char *sort_order;
@@ -34,6 +35,7 @@ extern struct sort_entry sort_dso_to;
 extern struct sort_entry sort_sym_from;
 extern struct sort_entry sort_sym_to;
 extern struct sort_entry sort_srcline;
+extern struct sort_entry sort_type;
 extern const char default_mem_sort_order[];
 extern bool chk_double_cl;
 
@@ -154,6 +156,7 @@ struct hist_entry {
 	struct perf_hpp_list	*hpp_list;
 	struct hist_entry	*parent_he;
 	struct hist_entry_ops	*ops;
+	struct annotated_data_type *mem_type;
 	union {
 		/* this is for hierarchical entry structure */
 		struct {
@@ -243,6 +246,7 @@ enum sort_type {
 	SORT_LOCAL_RETIRE_LAT,
 	SORT_GLOBAL_RETIRE_LAT,
 	SORT_SIMD,
+	SORT_ANNOTATE_DATA_TYPE,
 
 	/* branch stack specific sort keys */
 	__SORT_BRANCH_STACK,
