A new XanMod Linux Kernel based on the latest Linux LTS Kernel 5.10.70 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 5.10.70-xanmod1

• 4b58c1e Linux 5.10.70-xanmod1
• b17d885 Merge tag 'v5.10.70' into 5.10
• f93026b Linux 5.10.70
• 5909429 qnx4: work around gcc false positive warning bug
• 35c0dfb xen/balloon: fix balloon kthread freezing
• 8373d58 USB: serial: cp210x: fix dropped characters with CP2102
• 67cdb51 thermal/drivers/int340x: Do not set a wrong tcc offset on resume
• cc71740 EDAC/dmc520: Assign the proper type to dimm->edac_mode
• 9afad85 EDAC/synopsys: Fix wrong value type assignment for edac_mode
• db76cb0 spi: Fix tegra20 build with CONFIG_PM=n
• 890e25c net: 6pack: Fix tx timeout and slot time
• 044513c alpha: Declare virt_to_phys and virt_to_bus parameter as pointer to volatile
• 0a511ba arm64: Mark __stack_chk_guard as __ro_after_init
• fec3bd6 parisc: Use absolute_pointer() to define PAGE0
• 61454e7 qnx4: avoid stringop-overread errors
• 5520d27 sparc: avoid stringop-overread errors
• 8d768be net: i825xx: Use absolute_pointer for memcpy from fixed memory location
• e99f903 compiler.h: Introduce absolute_pointer macro
• f58d305 blk-cgroup: fix UAF by grabbing blkcg lock before destroying blkg pd
• 1ef68b8 block: flush the integrity workqueue in blk_integrity_unregister
• 1963bdb block: check if a profile is actually registered in blk_integrity_unregister
• 526261c amd/display: downgrade validation failure log level
• 54a4860 sparc32: page align size in arch_dma_alloc
• ecf0dc5 nvme-rdma: destroy cm id before destroy qp to avoid use after free
• 2a08960 nvme-multipath: fix ANA state updates when a namespace is not present
• 372d3e6 xen/balloon: use a kernel thread instead a workqueue
• 6345a0b bpf: Add oversize check before call kvcalloc()
• e567d33 cpufreq: intel_pstate: Override parameters if HWP forced by BIOS
• 9561bb9 ipv6: delay fib6_sernum increase in fib6_add
• 31df1d0 m68k: Double cast io functions to unsigned long
• cc3dd11 blk-mq: avoid to iterate over stale request
• de7e030 net: stmmac: allow CSR clock of 300MHz
• 7721221 net: macb: fix use after free on rmmod
• a632288 net: phylink: Update SFP selected interface on advertising changes
• 3815fe7 blktrace: Fix uaf in blk_trace access after removing by sysfs
• ce09235 io_uring: put provided buffer meta data under memcg accounting
• 7040b37 x86/asm: Fix SETZ size enqcmds() build failure
• 54e85b6 x86/asm: Add a missing __iomem annotation in enqcmds()
• b18ba3f md: fix a lock order reversal in md_alloc
• 568662e irqchip/gic-v3-its: Fix potential VPE leak on error
• af7c9ff irqchip/goldfish-pic: Select GENERIC_IRQ_CHIP to fix build
• 0595fc4 scsi: lpfc: Use correct scnprintf() limit
• cb948b1 scsi: qla2xxx: Restore initiator in dual mode
• 3d42ed6 cifs: fix a sign extension bug
• 8cba4c2 thermal/core: Potential buffer overflow in thermal_build_list_of_policies()
• 215df43 nvme: keep ctrl->namespaces ordered
• 55e6f8b treewide: Change list_sort to use const pointers
• 419fab1 nvme-tcp: fix incorrect h2cdata pdu offset accounting
• c6ecdcb fpga: machxo2-spi: Fix missing error code in machxo2_write_complete()
• 5c6bfde fpga: machxo2-spi: Return an error on failure
• 4ea4925 tty: synclink_gt: rename a conflicting function name
• 56a8f0b tty: synclink_gt, drop unneeded forward declarations
• c64e6c3 scsi: target: Fix the pgr/alua_support_store functions
• 2d03054 scsi: iscsi: Adjust iface sysfs attr detection
• 0032f8b atlantic: Fix issue in the pm resume flow.
• c2598bc net/mlx4_en: Don't allow aRFS for encapsulated packets
• b4e54f5 qed: rdma - don't wait for resources under hw error recovery flow
• 1bba406 gpio: uniphier: Fix void functions to remove return value
• db94f89 s390/qeth: fix NULL deref in qeth_clear_working_pool_list()
• 3aa5024 kselftest/arm64: signal: Skip tests if required features are missing
• 91d4da3 kselftest/arm64: signal: Add SVE to the set of features we can check for
• 2eaa39d net: dsa: realtek: register the MDIO bus under devres
• 43c880b net: dsa: don't allocate the slave_mii_bus using devres
• b4561bd net/smc: fix 'workqueue leaked lock' in smc_conn_abort_work
• 8a00c83 net/smc: add missing error check in smc_clc_prfx_set()
• 4e0fd1d net: hns3: check queue id range before using
• ca43599 net: hns3: fix change RSS 'hfunc' ineffective issue
• 1365a0d bnxt_en: Fix TX timeout when TX ring size is set to the smallest
• d5afe3c enetc: Fix uninitialized struct dim_sample field usage
• 6c3f1b7 enetc: Fix illegal access when reading affinity_hint
• 117661c platform/x86/intel: punit_ipc: Drop wrong use of ACPI_PTR()
• 22538c1 afs: Fix updating of i_blocks on file/dir extension
• 5535294 afs: Fix incorrect triggering of sillyrename on 3rd-party invalidation
• 8d6a21e comedi: Fix memory leak in compat_insnlist()
• 43241a6 net: hso: fix muxed tty registration
• 68d4fbe drm/amd/pm: Update intermediate power state for SI
• 7dc9225 scsi: sd_zbc: Ensure buffer size is aligned to SECTOR_SIZE
• 3dfffcd serial: mvebu-uart: fix driver's tx_empty callback
• 640946f serial: 8250: 8250_omap: Fix RX_LVL register offset
• 0ea9ac7 xhci: Set HCD flag to defer primary roothub registration
• 80af86c btrfs: prevent __btrfs_dump_space_info() to underflow its free space
• 8326be9 erofs: fix up erofs_lookup tracepoint
• 91e4ad0 mcb: fix error handling in mcb_alloc_bus()
• 2c28bb0 USB: serial: option: add device id for Foxconn T99W265
• 600b196 USB: serial: option: remove duplicate USB device ID
• 0daf579 USB: serial: option: add Telit LN920 compositions
• dc131d3 USB: serial: mos7840: remove duplicated 0xac24 device ID
• d58fc9e usb: core: hcd: Add support for deferring roothub registration
• 996f7c4 usb: dwc3: core: balance phy init and exit
• a05ff80 Re-enable UAS for LaCie Rugged USB3-FW with fk quirk
• b9e697e staging: greybus: uart: fix tty use after free
• d5b0473 binder: make sure fd closes complete
• 302e60e Revert "USB: bcma: Add a check for devm_gpiod_get"
• b33b3db USB: cdc-acm: fix minor-number release
• 0809b85 USB: serial: cp210x: add ID for GW Instek GDM-834x Digital Multimeter
• a34d6ef usb-storage: Add quirk for ScanLogic SL11R-IDE older than 2.6c
• f792828 xen/x86: fix PV trap handling on secondary processors
• 93028da cifs: fix incorrect check for null pointer in header_assemble
• 5940e22 usb: musb: tusb6010: uninitialized data in tusb_fifo_write_unaligned()
• d071c7f usb: dwc2: gadget: Fix ISOC transfer complete handling for DDMA
• 5f4bfac usb: dwc2: gadget: Fix ISOC flow for BDMA and Slave
• 1fbd7eb usb: gadget: r8a66597: fix a loop in set_feature()
• 8382972 mm: fix uninitialized use in overcommit_policy_handler
• 437be4d ocfs2: drop acl cache for directories too
• 31bd6cd PCI: aardvark: Increase polling delay to 1.5s while waiting for PIO response

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Download Linux 5.10.70-xanmod1 source from GitHub