A new XanMod Linux Kernel based on the latest LTS Linux Kernel 5.10.26 has been released. XanMod is a general-purpose Linux kernel distribution with custom settings and new features. The real-time version is recommended for critical runtime applications such as Linux gaming eSports, streaming, live productions and ultra-low latency enthusiasts.

XanMod is a general-purpose Linux kernel distribution with custom settings and new features. Built to provide a stable, responsive and smooth desktop experience.

The real-time version is recommended for critical runtime applications such as Linux gaming eSports, streaming, live productions and ultra-low latency enthusiasts.

Supports all recent 64-bit versions of Debian and Ubuntu-based systems.

Main Features

• Preemptive Full Tickless Kernel at 500Hz w/ Tuned CPU Core Scheduler.
• RCU Boost for better responsiveness and lower overall system latency.
• Block Layer w/ multi-threaded runqueue for high I/O throughput.
• Caching, Virtual Memory Manager and CPUFreq Governor improvements.
• BBR TCP Congestion Control + FQ-PIE Packet Scheduling and AQM Algorithm [5.8].
• ORC Unwinder for Kernel Stack Traces (debuginfo) implementation.
• Third-party patchset available: ZSTD kernel, initrd and modules support [5.8][5.6-rt], Full x86_64 FSGSBASE instructions [5.8], Clear Linux [partial], CK's Hrtimer Patchset [5.8][5.4], Wine / Proton Fsync, PCIe ACS Override, BMQ Process Scheduler [5.4 stock disabled], Aufs [5.4] and GCC graysky's.
• Real-time Linux kernel (PREEMPT_RT) build available [5.6-rt][5.4-rt].
• Generic kernel package for compatibility with most Debian & Ubuntu based distributions. Built on the latest GCC 10.2 and Binutils 2.35.
• GPLv2 license. Can be built for any distribution or purpose.

Install via Terminal

echo 'deb  http://deb.xanmod.org releases main' | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/xanmod-kernel.list && wget -qO -  https://dl.xanmod.org/gpg.key | sudo apt-key add -

Then update and install:

sudo apt update && sudo apt install linux-xanmod

Reboot.

Meta packages available: linux-xanmod, linux-xanmod-edge, linux-xanmod-lts, linux-xanmod-rt-edge and linux-xanmod-rt.

To try without adding the repository

Download from Sourceforge and install:
https://sourceforge.net/projects/xanmod/files/

1. In terminal:

   sudo dpkg -i linux-image-*xanmod*.deb linux-headers-*xanmod*.deb

2. Reboot.

• Check it:

  cat /proc/version

* linux-firmware-image package is optional

Linux 5.10.26-xanmod1

• c142ef1 Linux 5.10.26-xanmod1
• 3ece778 Merge tag 'v5.10.26' into 5.10
• 856cd02 Linux 5.10.26
• de1126e cifs: Fix preauth hash corruption
• 21536d7 x86/apic/of: Fix CPU devicetree-node lookups
• 95247d2 genirq: Disable interrupts for force threaded handlers
• 80b2787 firmware/efi: Fix a use after bug in efi_mem_reserve_persistent
• 47ba0d4 efi: use 32-bit alignment for efi_guid_t literals
• e5154ea static_call: Fix static_call_update() sanity check
• 51ccdd2 MAINTAINERS: move the staging subsystem to lists.linux.dev
• 4c9a747 MAINTAINERS: move some real subsystems off of the staging mailing list
• 35ecf66 ext4: fix rename whiteout with fast commit
• e8fa569 ext4: fix potential error in ext4_do_update_inode
• 6163a06 ext4: do not try to set xattr into ea_inode if value is empty
• d130b80 ext4: stop inode update before return
• 258db8e ext4: find old entry again if failed to rename whiteout
• 9689eca ext4: fix error handling in ext4_end_enable_verity()
• e4ea2a2 efivars: respect EFI_UNSUPPORTED return from firmware
• a548acd x86: Introduce TS_COMPAT_RESTART to fix get_nr_restart_syscall()
• 97c6089 x86: Move TS_COMPAT back to asm/thread_info.h
• 4523e64 kernel, fs: Introduce and use set_restart_fn() and arch_set_restart_data()
• 0e24525 x86/ioapic: Ignore IRQ2 again
• 4fdf5f4 perf/x86/intel: Fix unchecked MSR access error caused by VLBR_EVENT
• 514ea59 perf/x86/intel: Fix a crash caused by zero PEBS status
• be1f58e PCI: rpadlpar: Fix potential drc_name corruption in store functions
• 6d4e1fe counter: stm32-timer-cnt: fix ceiling miss-alignment with reload register
• cbc4c42 counter: stm32-timer-cnt: fix ceiling write max value
• dcdde25 iio: hid-sensor-temperature: Fix issues of timestamp channel
• 7de97c4 iio: hid-sensor-prox: Fix scale not correct issue
• fd8efe1 iio: hid-sensor-humidity: Fix alignment issue of timestamp channel
• b477c12 iio: adc: adi-axi-adc: add proper Kconfig dependencies
• d894aca iio: adc: ad7949: fix wrong ADC result due to incorrect bit mask
• 533ee1e iio: adc: ab8500-gpadc: Fix off by 10 to 3
• f8bfbd3 iio: gyro: mpu3050: Fix error handling in mpu3050_trigger_handler
• 06c281c iio: adis16400: Fix an error code in adis16400_initial_setup()
• 5312314 iio:adc:qcom-spmi-vadc: add default scale to LR_MUX2_BAT_ID channel
• 3ce2e7b iio:adc:stm32-adc: Add HAS_IOMEM dependency
• 6c3c900 thunderbolt: Increase runtime PM reference count on DP tunnel discovery
• f4ca082 thunderbolt: Initialize HopID IDAs in tb_switch_alloc()
• c7bb96a usb: dwc3: gadget: Prevent EP queuing while stopping transfers
• 395d273 usb: dwc3: gadget: Allow runtime suspend if UDC unbinded
• 8b8a842 usb: typec: tcpm: Invoke power_supply_changed for tcpm-source-psy-
• 0ea3fb1 usb: typec: Remove vdo[3] part of tps6598x_rx_identity_reg struct
• 0f882bc usb: gadget: configfs: Fix KASAN use-after-free
• 22e85a6 usbip: Fix incorrect double assignment to udc->ud.tcp_rx
• 7046e5f usb-storage: Add quirk to defeat Kindle's automatic unload
• 5a62d6d powerpc: Force inlining of cpu_has_feature() to avoid build failure
• 2bdef2b gfs2: bypass signal_our_withdraw if no journal
• a602e83 gfs2: move freeze glock outside the make_fs_rw and _ro functions
• 49787b1 gfs2: Add common helper for holding and releasing the freeze glock
• db37238 regulator: pca9450: Clear PRESET_EN bit to fix BUCK1/2/3 voltage setting
• cfbff8b regulator: pca9450: Enable system reset on WDOG_B assertion
• 775691b regulator: pca9450: Add SD_VSEL GPIO for LDO5
• 9392b82 net: bonding: fix error return code of bond_neigh_init()
• 76f4966 io_uring: clear IOCB_WAITQ for non -EIOCBQUEUED return
• 3c08f77 io_uring: don't attempt IO reissue from the ring exit path
• 40345b9 drm/amd/pm: fulfill the Polaris implementation for get_clock_by_type_with_latency()
• e8e99ac s390/qeth: schedule TX NAPI on QAOB completion
• f3f6765 ibmvnic: remove excessive irqsave
• 96823c1 media: cedrus: h264: Support profile controls
• 1c20e90 io_uring: fix inconsistent lock state
• e1a6907 iwlwifi: Add a new card for MA family
• e7f6ebd drm/amd/display: turn DPMS off on connector unplug
• 559b842 MIPS: compressed: fix build with enabled UBSAN
• 8545519 net: phy: micrel: set soft_reset callback to genphy_soft_reset for KSZ8081
• 33cafc7 i40e: Fix endianness conversions
• 41d4c88 powerpc/sstep: Fix darn emulation
• 8a33514 powerpc/sstep: Fix load-store and update emulation
• 8b4a797 RDMA/mlx5: Allow creating all QPs even when non RDMA profile is used
• bb38c1c scsi: isci: Pass gfp_t flags in isci_port_bc_change_received()
• d742380 scsi: isci: Pass gfp_t flags in isci_port_link_up()
• d9f5efd scsi: isci: Pass gfp_t flags in isci_port_link_down()
• 1eda358 scsi: mvsas: Pass gfp_t flags to libsas event notifiers
• 58bdc32 scsi: libsas: Introduce a _gfp() variant of event notifiers
• 18c3c04 scsi: libsas: Remove notifier indirection
• 29c5b80 scsi: pm8001: Neaten debug logging macros and uses
• c4186c0 scsi: pm80xx: Fix pm8001_mpi_get_nvmd_resp() race condition
• 3e4b377 scsi: pm80xx: Make running_req atomic
• 6075c84 scsi: pm80xx: Make mpi_build_cmd locking consistent
• d802672 module: harden ELF info handling
• e2c8978 module: avoid gotos in module_sig_check()
• 8587715 module: merge repetitive strings in module_sig_check()
• c02a33f RDMA/rtrs: Fix KASAN: stack-out-of-bounds bug
• 904a52d RDMA/rtrs: Introduce rtrs_post_send
• 9e97c21 RDMA/rtrs-srv: Jump to dereg_mr label if allocate iu fails
• 5abee8b RDMA/rtrs: Remove unnecessary argument dir of rtrs_iu_free
• 4ebd8f0 bpf: Declare __bpf_free_used_maps() unconditionally
• 0e44f1e serial: stm32: fix DMA initialization error handling
• 5f8659a tty: serial: stm32-usart: Remove set but unused 'cookie' variables
• 20c0bd2 ibmvnic: serialize access to work queue on remove
• f8ba691 ibmvnic: add some debugs
• b4be6e6 nvme-rdma: fix possible hang when failing to set io queues
• b3901ce gpiolib: Assign fwnode to parent's if no primary one provided
• c5fe922 counter: stm32-timer-cnt: Report count function when SLAVE_MODE_DISABLED
• f854abe RISC-V: correct enum sbi_ext_rfence_fid
• 359d8ff scsi: ufs: ufs-mediatek: Correct operator & -> &&
• 38089ba scsi: myrs: Fix a double free in myrs_cleanup()
• eb9d08b scsi: lpfc: Fix some error codes in debugfs
• e95c0d4 riscv: Correct SPARSEMEM configuration
• 04eb2b2 cifs: fix allocation size on newly created files
• bb2e41e kbuild: Fix for empty SUBLEVEL or PATCHLEVEL again
• 7271456 net/qrtr: fix __netdev_alloc_skb call
• 6cae809 io_uring: ensure that SQPOLL thread is started for exit
• a7acb61 pstore: Fix warning in pstore_kill_sb()
• 5f7d470 i915/perf: Start hrtimer only if sampling the OA buffer
• cb14e99 sunrpc: fix refcount leak for rpc auth modules
• 2ea2d3a vhost_vdpa: fix the missing irq_bypass_unregister_producer() invocation
• 3e5a1bb vfio: IOMMU_API should be selected
• c221962 svcrdma: disable timeouts on rdma backchannel
• 982b899 NFSD: fix dest to src mount in inter-server COPY
• 800369d NFSD: Repair misuse of sv_lock in 5.10.16-rt30.
• 12628e7 nfsd: don't abort copies early
• 5ea0aa2 nfsd: Don't keep looking up unhashed files in the nfsd file cache
• 628f39a nvmet: don't check iosqes,iocqes for discovery controllers
• b4f911e nvme-tcp: fix a NULL deref when receiving a 0-length r2t PDU
• 7089cdf nvme-tcp: fix possible hang when failing to set io queues
• a83e5c6 nvme-tcp: fix misuse of __smp_processor_id with preemption enabled
• fd9e2b9 nvme: fix Write Zeroes limitations
• 2d20208 ALSA: usb-audio: Fix unintentional sign extension issue
• 64195f0 afs: Stop listxattr() from listing "afs.*" attributes
• 78ba479 afs: Fix accessing YFS xattrs on a non-YFS server
• 07fa872 ASoC: simple-card-utils: Do not handle device clock
• d1ab87e ASoC: qcom: lpass-cpu: Fix lpass dai ids parse
• 1ae54de ASoC: codecs: wcd934x: add a sanity check in set channel map
• 03079a0 ASoC: qcom: sdm845: Fix array out of range on rx slim channels
• 26b08c0 ASoC: qcom: sdm845: Fix array out of bounds access
• 47a6cad ASoC: SOF: intel: fix wrong poll bits in dsp power down
• b94b71a ASoC: SOF: Intel: unregister DMIC device on probe error
• 4da5a9a ASoC: Intel: bytcr_rt5640: Fix HP Pavilion x2 10-p0XX OVCD current threshold
• 118cfdc ASoC: fsl_ssi: Fix TDM slot setup for I2S mode
• 223dc51 drm/amd/display: Correct algorithm for reversed gamma
• 4daa70a vhost-vdpa: set v->config_ctx to NULL if eventfd_ctx_fdget() fails
• 49ca310 vhost-vdpa: fix use-after-free of v->config_ctx
• 2c8d6a9 btrfs: fix slab cache flags for free space tree bitmap
• 38ffe9e btrfs: fix race when cloning extent buffer during rewind of an old root
• 78486cf zonefs: fix to update .i_wr_refcnt correctly in zonefs_open_zone()
• 9c1c5e8 zonefs: prevent use of seq files as swap file
• dfbdbf0 zonefs: Fix O_APPEND async write handling
• 38c74f2 s390/pci: fix leak of PCI device structure
• 075e303 s390/pci: remove superfluous zdev->zbus check
• bd37d9b s390/pci: refactor zpci_create_device()
• 015916c s390/vtime: fix increased steal time accounting
• 5c0a3a3 Revert "PM: runtime: Update device status before letting suppliers suspend"
• 68525e4 ALSA: hda/realtek: fix mute/micmute LEDs for HP 850 G8
• f086dea ALSA: hda/realtek: fix mute/micmute LEDs for HP 440 G8
• 7b00df1 ALSA: hda/realtek: fix mute/micmute LEDs for HP 840 G8
• 14af4bf ALSA: hda/realtek: Apply headset-mic quirks for Xiaomi Redmibook Air
• 4c698a3 ALSA: hda: generic: Fix the micmute led init state
• e6c7cdf ALSA: hda/realtek: apply pin quirk for XiaomiNotebook Pro
• cd7b17b ALSA: dice: fix null pointer dereference when node is disconnected
• 422806f spi: cadence: set cqspi to the driver_data field of struct device
• f8d5ced ASoC: ak5558: Add MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE
• 064a728 ASoC: ak4458: Add MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE

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