diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
index 9104430e148e..041ef848d736 100644
--- a/MAINTAINERS
+++ b/MAINTAINERS
@@ -16896,10 +16896,10 @@ PERFORMANCE EVENTS SUBSYSTEM
 M:	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
 M:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
 M:	Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org>
+M:	Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
 R:	Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
 R:	Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
 R:	Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
-R:	Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
 R:	Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
 R:	Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
 L:	linux-perf-users@vger.kernel.org