An updated XanMod Linux Kernel based on Linux Kernel 5.14.10 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-xanmodReboot.
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
* linux-firmware-image package is optionalDownload from Sourceforge and install:
https://sourceforge.net/projects/xanmod/files/
In terminal:sudo dpkg -i linux-image-*xanmod*.deb linux-headers-*xanmod*.deb Reboot.
Check it:cat /proc/version
Linux 5.14.10-xanmod1
- 3af962d Linux 5.14.10-xanmod1
- 7c73ded i2c: busses: Add SMBus capability to work with OpenRGB driver control
- 5ef6661 MAINTAINERS: Add maintainer entry for zstd
- f447f45 lib: zstd: Upgrade to latest upstream zstd version 1.4.10
- 050d0d8 lib: zstd: Add decompress_sources.h for decompress_unzstd
- 28bc7a8 lib: zstd: Add kernel-specific API
- bad2461 Merge tag 'v5.14.10' into 5.14
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| * b133f07 Linux 5.14.10
| * 81971ea HID: amd_sfh: Fix potential NULL pointer dereference - take 2
| * fe6f7b7 objtool: print out the symbol type when complaining about it
| * a7d4cb2 drivers: net: mhi: fix error path in mhi_net_newlink
| * 14492ff netfilter: nf_tables: Fix oversized kvmalloc() calls
| * 7ea6f58 netfilter: conntrack: serialize hash resizes and cleanups
| * 4664318 KVM: x86: Handle SRCU initialization failure during page track init
| * 38c84df crypto: aesni - xts_crypt() return if walk.nbytes is 0
| * 2b70486 HID: usbhid: free raw_report buffers in usbhid_stop
| * 24f3fc9 mm: don't allow oversized kvmalloc() calls
| * 3213f5f netfilter: ipset: Fix oversized kvmalloc() calls
| * 708107b HID: betop: fix slab-out-of-bounds Write in betop_probe
| * eae2fce usb: hso: remove the bailout parameter
| * 47d791d NIOS2: setup.c: drop unused variable 'dram_start'
| * a7931aa net: udp: annotate data race around udp_sk(sk)->corkflag
| * aa3a4f5 HID: u2fzero: ignore incomplete packets without data
| * a4f316a ext4: flush s_error_work before journal destroy in ext4_fill_super
| * 2021f18 ext4: fix potential infinite loop in ext4_dx_readdir()
| * 27e10c5 ext4: add error checking to ext4_ext_replay_set_iblocks()
| * 9bef6f6 ext4: fix reserved space counter leakage
| * a5a403a ext4: limit the number of blocks in one ADD_RANGE TLV
| * 68a5ca2 ext4: fix loff_t overflow in ext4_max_bitmap_size()
| * 811178f ipack: ipoctal: fix module reference leak
| * 382ef7f ipack: ipoctal: fix missing allocation-failure check
| * fcd28f2 ipack: ipoctal: fix tty-registration error handling
| * 4953ef8 ipack: ipoctal: fix tty registration race
| * 0a9c36a ipack: ipoctal: fix stack information leak
| * ec889a8 debugfs: debugfs_create_file_size(): use IS_ERR to check for error
| * e554f26 driver core: fw_devlink: Improve handling of cyclic dependencies
| * 133578a elf: don't use MAP_FIXED_NOREPLACE for elf interpreter mappings
| * 617f0ea nvme: add command id quirk for apple controllers
| * bad1cb9 kvm: fix objtool relocation warning
| * 77744fa hwmon: (pmbus/mp2975) Add missed POUT attribute for page 1 mp2975 controller
| * ec9331e hwmon: (occ) Fix P10 VRM temp sensors
| * 9ea06d5 sched/fair: Null terminate buffer when updating tunable_scaling
| * fce08b0 sched/fair: Add ancestors of unthrottled undecayed cfs_rq
| * d42683c perf/x86/intel: Update event constraints for ICX
| * 3aa3814 objtool: Teach get_alt_entry() about more relocation types
| * ec716aa af_unix: fix races in sk_peer_pid and sk_peer_cred accesses
| * 97f1c17 net: stmmac: fix EEE init issue when paired with EEE capable PHYs
| * dab4677 net: sched: flower: protect fl_walk() with rcu
| * e88c502 net: phy: bcm7xxx: Fixed indirect MMD operations
| * 4cdec10 net: hns3: disable firmware compatible features when uninstall PF
| * 3937b9c net: hns3: fix always enable rx vlan filter problem after selftest
| * fd519ae net: hns3: reconstruct function hns3_self_test
| * 851c0b9 net: hns3: fix show wrong state when add existing uc mac address
| * 18e6097 net: hns3: fix mixed flag HCLGE_FLAG_MQPRIO_ENABLE and HCLGE_FLAG_DCB_ENABLE
| * 8bcaeee net: hns3: don't rollback when destroy mqprio fail
| * 8d4ad0a net: hns3: remove tc enable checking
| * 3dac38b net: hns3: do not allow call hns3_nic_net_open repeatedly
| * 2744341 ixgbe: Fix NULL pointer dereference in ixgbe_xdp_setup
| * 81369dc scsi: csiostor: Add module softdep on cxgb4
| * 7a73120 Revert "block, bfq: honor already-setup queue merges"
| * 27b9ff8 ionic: fix gathering of debug stats
| * 477e7f6 net: ks8851: fix link error
| * 9d56138 bpf, x86: Fix bpf mapping of atomic fetch implementation
| * 0157eb8 selftests, bpf: test_lwt_ip_encap: Really disable rp_filter
| * 54d54d2 selftests, bpf: Fix makefile dependencies on libbpf
| * 173dbe4 libbpf: Fix segfault in static linker for objects without BTF
| * b822ce7 bpf: Exempt CAP_BPF from checks against bpf_jit_limit
| * b96fc31 RDMA/hns: Add the check of the CQE size of the user space
| * 8ba300a RDMA/hns: Fix the size setting error when copying CQE in clean_cq()
| * 714bfab RDMA/hfi1: Fix kernel pointer leak
| * d1db35d e100: fix buffer overrun in e100_get_regs
| * 474443c e100: fix length calculation in e100_get_regs_len
| * ed3617b dsa: mv88e6xxx: Include tagger overhead when setting MTU for DSA and CPU ports
| * 2c3c98b dsa: mv88e6xxx: Fix MTU definition
| * eabd1e1 dsa: mv88e6xxx: 6161: Use chip wide MAX MTU
| * 3027d7b drm/i915: Remove warning from the rps worker
| * 406b3c0 drm/i915/request: fix early tracepoints
| * 60edf38 smsc95xx: fix stalled rx after link change
| * bac85b1 net: ipv4: Fix rtnexthop len when RTA_FLOW is present
| * 3636e04 net: enetc: fix the incorrect clearing of IF_MODE bits
| * d4a6139 hwmon: (tmp421) fix rounding for negative values
| * 8776ad7 hwmon: (tmp421) report /PVLD condition as fault
| * 0fe76b4 RDMA/hns: Work around broken constant propagation in gcc 8
| * 62adc41 mptcp: allow changing the 'backup' bit when no sockets are open
| * 385cf9a mptcp: don't return sockets in foreign netns
| * 8180611 sctp: break out if skb_header_pointer returns NULL in sctp_rcv_ootb
| * 734652b net: mdiobus: Set FWNODE_FLAG_NEEDS_CHILD_BOUND_ON_ADD for mdiobus parents
| * 7f9cb65 driver core: fw_devlink: Add support for FWNODE_FLAG_NEEDS_CHILD_BOUND_ON_ADD
| * ed2adf6 mac80211-hwsim: fix late beacon hrtimer handling
| * 35367a5 mac80211: mesh: fix potentially unaligned access
| * 997ee23 mac80211: limit injected vht mcs/nss in ieee80211_parse_tx_radiotap
| * 764a80c mac80211: Fix ieee80211_amsdu_aggregate frag_tail bug
| * 2e46f26 Revert "mac80211: do not use low data rates for data frames with no ack flag"
| * 5f66dd1 netfilter: log: work around missing softdep backend module
| * f65c73d netfilter: nf_tables: unlink table before deleting it
| * ec0eb67 RDMA/irdma: Report correct WC error when there are MW bind errors
| * c3044d8 RDMA/irdma: Report correct WC error when transport retry counter is exceeded
| * 63a5c21 RDMA/irdma: Validate number of CQ entries on create CQ
| * 7dce0dc RDMA/irdma: Skip CQP ring during a reset
| * aa85fb7 hwmon: (mlxreg-fan) Return non-zero value when fan current state is enforced from sysfs
| * dbe8539 bpf, mips: Validate conditional branch offsets
| * e56a514 RDMA/cma: Fix listener leak in rdma_cma_listen_on_all() failure
| * 2288eaf IB/cma: Do not send IGMP leaves for sendonly Multicast groups
| * 67b07e7 bpf: Handle return value of BPF_PROG_TYPE_STRUCT_OPS prog
| * 473c59a ipvs: check that ip_vs_conn_tab_bits is between 8 and 20
| * ce1cccb drm/i915/gvt: fix the usage of ww lock in gvt scheduler.
| * 8bb4ef3 interconnect: qcom: sdm660: Correct NOC_QOS_PRIORITY shift and mask
| * f3856fe interconnect: qcom: sdm660: Fix id of slv_cnoc_mnoc_cfg
| * 5c488a2 drm/amdgpu: correct initial cp_hqd_quantum for gfx9
| * 73bb3f4 drm/amdgpu: check tiling flags when creating FB on GFX8-
| * 0d77b5d drm/amdgpu: force exit gfxoff on sdma resume for rmb s0ix
| * be6f8fb drm/amd/display: Fix Display Flicker on embedded panels
| * f43a2ab drm/amd/display: Pass PCI deviceid into DC
| * 81a2217 drm/amd/display: initialize backlight_ramping_override to false
| * 25011c9 nbd: use shifts rather than multiplies
| * 03d8846 RDMA/cma: Ensure rdma_addr_cancel() happens before issuing more requests
| * d9ba556 RDMA/cma: Do not change route.addr.src_addr.ss_family
| * 698c8a0 media: ir_toy: prevent device from hanging during transmit
| * 4ed5f26 mmc: renesas_sdhi: fix regression with hard reset on old SDHIs
| * dd2ee26 KVM: VMX: Fix a TSX_CTRL_CPUID_CLEAR field mask issue
| * 2cebb9a KVM: nVMX: Fix nested bus lock VM exit
| * efd7866 KVM: SVM: fix missing sev_decommission in sev_receive_start
| * 540dd95 KVM: SEV: Allow some commands for mirror VM
| * d6e7fd7 KVM: SEV: Acquire vcpu mutex when updating VMSA
| * c9343f0 KVM: SEV: Pin guest memory for write for RECEIVE_UPDATE_DATA
| * 0c1a1c5 KVM: SEV: Update svm_vm_copy_asid_from for SEV-ES
| * 5d522f7 KVM: nVMX: Filter out all unsupported controls when eVMCS was activated
| * 17e96fe KVM: x86: Swap order of CPUID entry "index" vs. "significant flag" checks
| * 3e71444 KVM: x86: Clear KVM's cached guest CR3 at RESET/INIT
| * 4639ee3 KVM: x86: nSVM: don't copy virt_ext from vmcb12
| * 99a9e9b KVM: x86: Fix stack-out-of-bounds memory access from ioapic_write_indirect()
| * 99a0160 ptp: Fix ptp_kvm_getcrosststamp issue for x86 ptp_kvm
| * 81bfd62 x86/kvmclock: Move this_cpu_pvti into kvmclock.h
| * 9a75f44 platform/x86/intel: hid: Add DMI switches allow list
| * 27d3eb5 mac80211: fix use-after-free in CCMP/GCMP RX
| * 38b789c scsi: ufs: Fix illegal offset in UPIU event trace
| * de6c8af gpio: pca953x: do not ignore i2c errors
| * 16887ae hwmon: (w83791d) Fix NULL pointer dereference by removing unnecessary structure field
| * 24af1fe hwmon: (w83792d) Fix NULL pointer dereference by removing unnecessary structure field
| * 7460111 hwmon: (w83793) Fix NULL pointer dereference by removing unnecessary structure field
| * 7635f8a hwmon: (tmp421) handle I2C errors
| * 343307d fs-verity: fix signed integer overflow with i_size near S64_MAX
| * 2a0d1a8 ACPI: NFIT: Use fallback node id when numa info in NFIT table is incorrect
| * 062055d ALSA: hda/realtek: Quirks to enable speaker output for Lenovo Legion 7i 15IMHG05, Yoga 7i 14ITL5/15ITL5, and 13s Gen2 laptops.
| * c949aae ALSA: firewire-motu: fix truncated bytes in message tracepoints
| * 12d5080 ALSA: rawmidi: introduce SNDRV_RAWMIDI_IOCTL_USER_PVERSION
| * 3327293 scsi: ufs: ufs-pci: Fix Intel LKF link stability
| * e130f2e cpufreq: schedutil: Destroy mutex before kobject_put() frees the memory
| * 920e3c7 drm/amdgpu: stop scheduler when calling hw_fini (v2)
| * 8ba968a drm/amdgpu: avoid over-handle of fence driver fini in s3 test (v2)
| * 05c8a9d drm/amdgpu: adjust fence driver enable sequence
| * 8a88b15 scsi: qla2xxx: Changes to support kdump kernel for NVMe BFS
| * 8d62aec cpufreq: schedutil: Use kobject release() method to free sugov_tunables
| * 699d926 tty: Fix out-of-bound vmalloc access in imageblit
| * 7be1997 watchdog/sb_watchdog: fix compilation problem due to COMPILE_TEST
| * a55e7c3 perf iostat: Fix Segmentation fault from NULL 'struct perf_counts_values *'
| * af0bbcb perf iostat: Use system-wide mode if the target cpu_list is unspecified
| * 018e7ce perf test: Fix DWARF unwind for optimized builds.
| * 283e4be HID: amd_sfh: Fix potential NULL pointer dereference
| * a3d0bfc kasan: fix Kconfig check of CC_HAS_WORKING_NOSANITIZE_ADDRESS
| * 5a309b9 NIOS2: fix kconfig unmet dependency warning for SERIAL_CORE_CONSOLE
| * a688abc m68k: Update ->thread.esp0 before calling syscall_trace() in ret_from_signal
| * e450c42 crypto: ccp - fix resource leaks in ccp_run_aes_gcm_cmd()
| * 0bfe741 s390/qeth: fix deadlock during failing recovery
| * 0184084 s390/qeth: Fix deadlock in remove_discipline
| * 946aa1b net/mlx4_en: Resolve bad operstate value
| * 2624683 pinctrl: qcom: spmi-gpio: correct parent irqspec translation
| * b1ca0c6 ASoC: SOF: imx: imx8m: Bar index is only valid for IRAM and SRAM types
| * 5f589b0 ASoC: SOF: imx: imx8: Bar index is only valid for IRAM and SRAM types
| * a6bb576 ASoC: SOF: Fix DSP oops stack dump output contents
| * 69c9494 scsi: elx: efct: Fix void-pointer-to-enum-cast warning for efc_nport_topology
| * 0a0d0ce ASoC: mediatek: common: handle NULL case in suspend/resume function
| * 9b5de01 ASoC: fsl_xcvr: register platform component before registering cpu dai
| * 4916efd ASoC: fsl_spdif: register platform component before registering cpu dai
| * 63ff9da ASoC: fsl_micfil: register platform component before registering cpu dai
| * b04db30 ASoC: fsl_esai: register platform component before registering cpu dai
| * 799b9ff ASoC: fsl_sai: register platform component before registering cpu dai
| * ef074ff media: s5p-jpeg: rename JPEG marker constants to prevent build warnings
| * add13fd media: cedrus: Fix SUNXI tile size calculation
| * 00426cf media: hantro: Fix check for single irq- 9bb7728 lib: zstd: remove v1.4.10-v11 patchset
- 2b7ec33 Revert "zstd: fix fall-through warnings
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