diff --git a/arch/x86/events/core.c b/arch/x86/events/core.c
index a88c94d656931..550c5e7002b90 100644
--- a/arch/x86/events/core.c
+++ b/arch/x86/events/core.c
@@ -1174,7 +1174,7 @@ static inline void x86_assign_hw_event(struct perf_event *event,
 	case INTEL_PMC_IDX_METRIC_BASE ... INTEL_PMC_IDX_METRIC_END:
 		/* All the metric events are mapped onto the fixed counter 3. */
 		idx = INTEL_PMC_IDX_FIXED_SLOTS;
-		/* fall through */
+		fallthrough;
 	case INTEL_PMC_IDX_FIXED ... INTEL_PMC_IDX_FIXED_BTS-1:
 		hwc->config_base = MSR_ARCH_PERFMON_FIXED_CTR_CTRL;
 		hwc->event_base = MSR_ARCH_PERFMON_FIXED_CTR0 +