diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 5324cbfd2a0a..f2c482aba8ed 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
 # SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
 VERSION = 5
-PATCHLEVEL = 15
+PATCHLEVEL = 16
 SUBLEVEL = 0
-EXTRAVERSION =
+EXTRAVERSION = -rc1
 NAME = Trick or Treat
 
 # *DOCUMENTATION*
@@ -804,6 +804,9 @@ stackp-flags-$(CONFIG_STACKPROTECTOR_STRONG)      := -fstack-protector-strong
 
 KBUILD_CFLAGS += $(stackp-flags-y)
 
+KBUILD_CFLAGS += $(KBUILD_CFLAGS-y)
+KBUILD_CFLAGS += $(KBUILD_CFLAGS-y) $(CONFIG_CC_IMPLICIT_FALLTHROUGH)
+
 ifdef CONFIG_CC_IS_CLANG
 KBUILD_CPPFLAGS += -Qunused-arguments
 # The kernel builds with '-std=gnu89' so use of GNU extensions is acceptable.
@@ -814,10 +817,6 @@ KBUILD_CFLAGS += -Wno-gnu
 KBUILD_CFLAGS += -mno-global-merge
 else
 
-# Warn about unmarked fall-throughs in switch statement.
-# Disabled for clang while comment to attribute conversion happens and
-# https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/issues/636 is discussed.
-KBUILD_CFLAGS += $(call cc-option,-Wimplicit-fallthrough=5,)
 # gcc inanely warns about local variables called 'main'
 KBUILD_CFLAGS += -Wno-main
 endif
diff --git a/init/Kconfig b/init/Kconfig
index 9e9fddb22f49..73cac49b0381 100644
--- a/init/Kconfig
+++ b/init/Kconfig
@@ -871,6 +871,11 @@ config ARCH_WANT_BATCHED_UNMAP_TLB_FLUSH
 config CC_HAS_INT128
 	def_bool !$(cc-option,$(m64-flag) -D__SIZEOF_INT128__=0) && 64BIT
 
+config CC_IMPLICIT_FALLTHROUGH
+	string
+	default "-Wimplicit-fallthrough=5" if CC_IS_GCC
+	default "-Wimplicit-fallthrough" if CC_IS_CLANG && $(cc-option,-Wunreachable-code-fallthrough)
+
 #
 # For architectures that know their GCC __int128 support is sound
 #