diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index d83d72c..9cf9d5c 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -789,7 +789,7 @@
 KBUILD_CFLAGS += $(stackp-flags-y)
 
 KBUILD_CFLAGS-$(CONFIG_WERROR) += -Werror
-KBUILD_CFLAGS += $(KBUILD_CFLAGS-y)
+KBUILD_CFLAGS += $(KBUILD_CFLAGS-y) $(CONFIG_CC_IMPLICIT_FALLTHROUGH)
 
 ifdef CONFIG_CC_IS_CLANG
 KBUILD_CPPFLAGS += -Qunused-arguments
@@ -801,10 +801,6 @@
 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 += $(call cc-option,-Wimplicit-fallthrough=5,)
 # gcc inanely warns about local variables called 'main'
 KBUILD_CFLAGS += -Wno-main
 endif
diff --git a/init/Kconfig b/init/Kconfig
index 45bcaa8..036b750 100644
--- a/init/Kconfig
+++ b/init/Kconfig
@@ -885,6 +885,11 @@
 config CC_HAS_INT128
 	def_bool !$(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
 #