A new XanMod Linux Kernel based on the latest Linux LTS Kernel 5.10.40 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 5.10.40-xanmod1

• 46db942 Linux 5.10.40-xanmod1
• 1e21f5a Merge tag 'v5.10.40' into 5.10
• 4068786 Linux 5.10.40
• d8d261c Bluetooth: SMP: Fail if remote and local public keys are identical
• e8c3478 video: hgafb: correctly handle card detect failure during probe
• ed9fdd4 nvmet: use new ana_log_size instead the old one
• d28aa3c x86/boot/compressed/64: Check SEV encryption in the 32-bit boot-path
• 0296c90 rtc: pcf85063: fallback to parent of_node
• 7b994b0 nvme-multipath: fix double initialization of ANA state
• e2c26dd x86/Xen: swap NX determination and GDT setup on BSP
• d5c4605 openrisc: mm/init.c: remove unused memblock_region variable in map_ram()
• 585d842 drm/i915/gt: Disable HiZ Raw Stall Optimization on broken gen7
• eb46907 tty: vt: always invoke vc->vc_sw->con_resize callback
• a14ca25 vt: Fix character height handling with VT_RESIZEX
• 8026eb8 vt_ioctl: Revert VT_RESIZEX parameter handling removal
• a3de468 vgacon: Record video mode changes with VT_RESIZEX
• 8e0d302 video: hgafb: fix potential NULL pointer dereference
• 98404ac qlcnic: Add null check after calling netdev_alloc_skb
• 865ec95 leds: lp5523: check return value of lp5xx_read and jump to cleanup code
• 33a9ff9 ics932s401: fix broken handling of errors when word reading fails
• e81f94a net: rtlwifi: properly check for alloc_workqueue() failure
• f9f59f4 scsi: ufs: handle cleanup correctly on devm_reset_control_get error
• 0eb496c net: stmicro: handle clk_prepare() failure during init
• c89c9a2 ethernet: sun: niu: fix missing checks of niu_pci_eeprom_read()
• 17e2216 Revert "niu: fix missing checks of niu_pci_eeprom_read"
• c794f78 Revert "qlcnic: Avoid potential NULL pointer dereference"
• 5e4fd74 Revert "rtlwifi: fix a potential NULL pointer dereference"
• 951ed24 Revert "media: rcar_drif: fix a memory disclosure"
• 5660864 cdrom: gdrom: initialize global variable at init time
• 9285808 cdrom: gdrom: deallocate struct gdrom_unit fields in remove_gdrom
• 3d2a4fb Revert "gdrom: fix a memory leak bug"
• 64ae556 Revert "scsi: ufs: fix a missing check of devm_reset_control_get"
• 61b9bc3 Revert "ecryptfs: replace BUG_ON with error handling code"
• 6003d37 Revert "video: imsttfb: fix potential NULL pointer dereferences"
• 4baaa49 Revert "hwmon: (lm80) fix a missing check of bus read in lm80 probe"
• 03c5d02 Revert "leds: lp5523: fix a missing check of return value of lp55xx_read"
• 059031a Revert "net: stmicro: fix a missing check of clk_prepare"
• d88f05c Revert "video: hgafb: fix potential NULL pointer dereference"
• fae4f4d kcsan: Fix debugfs initcall return type
• 2a61f0c dm snapshot: fix crash with transient storage and zero chunk size
• 4528c0c ipc/mqueue, msg, sem: avoid relying on a stack reference past its expiry
• 63a5b38 xen-pciback: reconfigure also from backend watch handler
• c196031 xen-pciback: redo VF placement in the virtual topology
• d047ec8 mmc: sdhci-pci-gli: increase 1.8V regulator wait
• 343208f powerpc/64s/syscall: Fix ptrace syscall info with scv syscalls
• 105345b powerpc/64s/syscall: Use pt_regs.trap to distinguish syscall ABI difference between sc and scv syscalls
• 3708b7a drm/amdgpu: update sdma golden setting for Navi12
• e32cb10 drm/amdgpu: update gc golden setting for Navi12
• 0c47929 drm/amdgpu: disable 3DCGCG on picasso/raven1 to avoid compute hang
• 93ba55c drm/amdgpu: Fix GPU TLB update error when PAGE_SIZE > AMDGPU_PAGE_SIZE
• 367c90f x86/sev-es: Forward page-faults which happen during emulation
• 5af89ee x86/sev-es: Use __put_user()/__get_user() for data accesses
• be4cba7 x86/sev-es: Don't return NULL from sev_es_get_ghcb()
• e7174da x86/sev-es: Invalidate the GHCB after completing VMGEXIT
• 193e021 x86/sev-es: Move sev_es_put_ghcb() in prep for follow on patch
• 9b942cb nvme-tcp: fix possible use-after-completion
• e4be684 Revert "serial: mvebu-uart: Fix to avoid a potential NULL pointer dereference"
• 1ba7a53 rapidio: handle create_workqueue() failure
• 961ae8c Revert "rapidio: fix a NULL pointer dereference when create_workqueue() fails"
• d84b5e9 uio_hv_generic: Fix a memory leak in error handling paths
• b044f51 ALSA: hda/realtek: Add fixup for HP Spectre x360 15-df0xxx
• 8add3dc ALSA: hda/realtek: Add fixup for HP OMEN laptop
• 01dbb91 ALSA: hda/realtek: Fix silent headphone output on ASUS UX430UA
• cfa5592 ALSA: hda/realtek: Add some CLOVE SSIDs of ALC293
• f693d0e ALSA: hda/realtek: reset eapd coeff to default value for alc287
• 78a37c0 ALSA: firewire-lib: fix check for the size of isochronous packet payload
• 00e5aa3 Revert "ALSA: sb8: add a check for request_region"
• 42796eb ALSA: hda: fixup headset for ASUS GU502 laptop
• 2cc051b ALSA: bebob/oxfw: fix Kconfig entry for Mackie d.2 Pro
• e5ffa75 ALSA: usb-audio: Validate MS endpoint descriptors
• ad7f8cc ALSA: firewire-lib: fix calculation for size of IR context payload
• 3d063d6 ALSA: dice: fix stream format at middle sampling rate for Alesis iO 26
• f42cf1e ALSA: line6: Fix racy initialization of LINE6 MIDI
• 214a983 ALSA: firewire-lib: fix amdtp_packet tracepoints event for packet_index field
• 1e94ffd ALSA: intel8x0: Don't update period unless prepared
• e227c60 ALSA: dice: fix stream format for TC Electronic Konnekt Live at high sampling transfer frequency
• 1b2b4d6 misc: eeprom: at24: check suspend status before disable regulator
• 42d35af cifs: fix memory leak in smb2_copychunk_range
• 56001dd btrfs: avoid RCU stalls while running delayed iputs
• e022914 powerpc: Fix early setup to make early_ioremap() work
• e354e37 locking/mutex: clear MUTEX_FLAGS if wait_list is empty due to signal
• 5dfed1b locking/lockdep: Correct calling tracepoints
• 075bece perf/x86: Avoid touching LBR_TOS MSR for Arch LBR
• e207bbf nvmet: seset ns->file when open fails
• 6f08af5 ptrace: make ptrace() fail if the tracee changed its pid unexpectedly
• eeafd64 powerpc/pseries: Fix hcall tracing recursion in pv queued spinlocks
• d53738c tools/testing/selftests/exec: fix link error
• 7cf4dec RDMA/uverbs: Fix a NULL vs IS_ERR() bug
• c62c907 RDMA/mlx5: Fix query DCT via DEVX
• 0cf036a platform/x86: dell-smbios-wmi: Fix oops on rmmod dell_smbios
• b8ff322 platform/x86: intel_int0002_vgpio: Only call enable_irq_wake() when using s2idle
• 2d6168f platform/mellanox: mlxbf-tmfifo: Fix a memory barrier issue
• 753927b nvme-fc: clear q_live at beginning of association teardown
• 33ebdee nvme-tcp: rerun io_work if req_list is not empty
• 9c98079 nvme-loop: fix memory leak in nvme_loop_create_ctrl()
• 4720f29 nvmet: fix memory leak in nvmet_alloc_ctrl()
• 737ccd2 nvmet: remove unused ctrl->cqs
• bd538f2 RDMA/core: Don't access cm_id after its destruction
• 75bdfe7 RDMA/mlx5: Recover from fatal event in dual port mode
• 8170c20 scsi: qla2xxx: Fix error return code in qla82xx_write_flash_dword()
• a6362a7 scsi: qedf: Add pointer checks in qedf_update_link_speed()
• 3f04b4f scsi: ufs: core: Increase the usable queue depth
• 2ee4d79 RDMA/rxe: Clear all QP fields if creation failed
• 66ab7fc RDMA/core: Prevent divide-by-zero error triggered by the user
• 1535701 RDMA/siw: Release xarray entry
• b83b491 RDMA/siw: Properly check send and receive CQ pointers
• c39a190 tee: amdtee: unload TA only when its refcount becomes 0
• 12de3ff openrisc: Fix a memory leak
• 4dcb3aa firmware: arm_scpi: Prevent the ternary sign expansion bug

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