A new XanMod Linux Kernel based on the latest Linux Kernel 6.1.23 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.

Linux 6.1.23-xanmod1

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 6.1.23-xanmod1

46a4629 Linux 6.1.23-xanmod1
d8a9729 Merge tag 'v6.1.23' into 6.1
543aff1 Linux 6.1.23
9c5aa3c Revert "cpuidle, intel_idle: Fix CPUIDLE_FLAG_IRQ_ENABLE again"
cafb47f x86/PVH: avoid 32-bit build warning when obtaining VGA console info
9f291f2 hsr: ratelimit only when errors are printed
d0386bd drm/amdkfd: Get prange->offset after svm_range_vram_node_new
fbfe493 usb: ucsi: Fix ucsi->connector race
e5c5cb4 libbpf: Fix btf_dump's packed struct determination
6c8afd5 selftests/bpf: Add few corner cases to test padding handling of btf_dump
524617e libbpf: Fix BTF-to-C converter's padding logic
2e35b08 selftests/bpf: Test btf dump for struct with padding only fields
0f9e728 net: dsa: mv88e6xxx: replace VTU violation prints with trace points
be831b5 net: dsa: mv88e6xxx: replace ATU violation prints with trace points
8f872c7 net: dsa: mv88e6xxx: read FID when handling ATU violations
e4ca457 KVM: arm64: Disable interrupts while walking userspace PTs
051e660 KVM: arm64: PMU: Fix GET_ONE_REG for vPMC regs to return the current value
fcf712b drm/i915: Move CSC load back into .color_commit_arm() when PSR is enabled on skl/glk
0fc6fea drm/i915: Disable DC states for all commits
c781c10 drm/i915/dpt: Treat the DPT BO as a framebuffer
21ee199 drm/i915/gem: Flush lmem contents after construction
fd71f4c drm/amd/display: Take FEC Overhead into Timeslot Calculation
41abe88 drm/amd/display: Add DSC Support for Synaptics Cascaded MST Hub
febacc3 drm/amdgpu: allow more APUs to do mode2 reset when go to S4
f931ca4 drm/etnaviv: fix reference leak when mmaping imported buffer
3f878da s390: reintroduce expoline dependence to scripts
a028d92 s390/uaccess: add missing earlyclobber annotations to __clear_user()
bc2f8b5 dt-bindings: mtd: jedec,spi-nor: Document CPOL/CPHA support
69bec5a rcu: Fix rcu_torture_read ftrace event
75289cd xtensa: fix KASAN report for show_stack
3a0e34a ALSA: hda/realtek: Add quirk for Lenovo ZhaoYang CF4620Z
036d5ae ALSA: hda/realtek: Add quirks for some Clevo laptops
3e120e9 ALSA: usb-audio: Fix regression on detection of Roland VS-100
0c60b9c ALSA: hda/conexant: Partial revert of a quirk for Lenovo
f6bcbd5 NFSv4: Fix hangs when recovering open state after a server reboot
3f5ded2 powerpc/64s: Fix __pte_needs_flush() false positive warning
0bb8897 powerpc/pseries/vas: Ignore VAS update for DLPAR if copy/paste is not enabled
064a1c7 powerpc: Don't try to copy PPR for task with NULL pt_regs
44917e8 platform/x86: ideapad-laptop: Stop sending KEY_TOUCHPAD_TOGGLE
61c1f42 pinctrl: at91-pio4: fix domain name assignment
d9c63da pinctrl: amd: Disable and mask interrupts on resume
0e7ac17 modpost: Fix processing of CRCs on 32-bit build machines
2269be4 net: phy: dp83869: fix default value for tx-/rx-internal-delay
cdfac0a xen/netback: don't do grant copy across page boundary
ace6aa2 can: j1939: prevent deadlock by moving j1939_sk_errqueue()
8b7c731 dm: fix _send_duplicate_bios() to always allow for splitting IO
d7c67be zonefs: Always invalidate last cached page on append write
4d35d37 vmxnet3: use gro callback when UPT is enabled
d67b3cd io_uring: fix poll/netmsg alloc caches
ef329fa io_uring/rsrc: fix rogue rsrc node grabbing
3eb2138 io_uring/poll: clear single/double poll flags on poll arming
e5da118 block/io_uring: pass in issue_flags for uring_cmd task_work handling
4a8f1f5 zonefs: Do not propagate iomap_dio_rw() ENOTBLK error to user space
8a6539e btrfs: scan device in non-exclusive mode
a38ff20 btrfs: fix race between quota disable and quota assign ioctls
6134a4b btrfs: fix deadlock when aborting transaction during relocation with scrub
85ec441 Input: goodix - add Lenovo Yoga Book X90F to nine_bytes_report DMI table
89c4b69 Input: i8042 - add quirk for Fujitsu Lifebook A574/H
b7d854c cifs: fix DFS traversal oops without CONFIG_CIFS_DFS_UPCALL
eb94ea5 cifs: prevent infinite recursion in CIFSGetDFSRefer()
f8bdc95 Input: focaltech - use explicitly signed char type
5ee6df5 Input: alps - fix compatibility with -funsigned-char
30a8863 Input: i8042 - add TUXEDO devices to i8042 quirk tables for partial fix
973043d iommu/vt-d: Allow zero SAGAW if second-stage not supported
db0ac14 Input: xpad - fix incorrectly applied patch for MAP_PROFILE_BUTTON
2a858f3 pinctrl: ocelot: Fix alt mode for ocelot
106fb49 net: ethernet: mtk_eth_soc: add missing ppe cache flush when deleting a flow
a7bd974 net: ethernet: mtk_eth_soc: fix flow block refcounting logic
1b0e8ab net: dsa: mv88e6xxx: Enable IGMP snooping on user ports only
b055e32 bnxt_en: Add missing 200G link speed reporting
f06ae13 bnxt_en: Fix typo in PCI id to device description string mapping
a4dd9f7 bnxt_en: Fix reporting of test result in ethtool selftest
37f9fe3 i40e: fix registers dump after run ethtool adapter self test
6e43dc9 net: ipa: compute DMA pool size properly
32b9bd7 ALSA: ymfpci: Fix BUG_ON in probe function
db7d778 ALSA: ymfpci: Create card with device-managed snd_devm_card_new()
9bc9e44 ice: fix invalid check for empty list in ice_sched_assoc_vsi_to_agg()
d109000 ice: add profile conflict check for AVF FDIR
0885738 ice: Fix ice_cfg_rdma_fltr() to only update relevant fields
0b9541a smsc911x: avoid PHY being resumed when interface is not up
a921dbb net: mvpp2: parser fix PPPoE
2a4f744 net: mvpp2: parser fix QinQ
5718b58 net: mvpp2: classifier flow fix fragmentation flags
bee9ca4 loop: LOOP_CONFIGURE: send uevents for partitions
b770717 ACPI: bus: Rework system-level device notification handling
6a40fda s390/vfio-ap: fix memory leak in vfio_ap device driver
c11dbc7 can: bcm: bcm_tx_setup(): fix KMSAN uninit-value in vfs_write
7ffdf7e platform/x86/intel/pmc: Alder Lake PCH slp_s0_residency fix
7508465 drm/i915/tc: Fix the ICL PHY ownership check in TC-cold state
ce1b88d net: stmmac: don't reject VLANs when IFF_PROMISC is set
c942f5c net/net_failover: fix txq exceeding warning
f70328a regulator: Handle deferred clk
1b808f5 r8169: fix RTL8168H and RTL8107E rx crc error
4ffa3fe net: dsa: microchip: ksz8: fix MDB configuration with non-zero VID
adfe556 net: dsa: microchip: ksz8863_smi: fix bulk access
8d86ea6 net: dsa: microchip: ksz8: ksz8_fdb_dump: avoid extracting ghost entry from empty dynamic MAC table.
628f76b net: dsa: microchip: ksz8: fix offset for the timestamp filed
9184059 net: dsa: microchip: ksz8: fix ksz8_fdb_dump() to extract all 1024 entries
9524c2e net: dsa: microchip: ksz8: fix ksz8_fdb_dump()
43b4331 ptp_qoriq: fix memory leak in probe()
cc0f9bb net: dsa: realtek: fix out-of-bounds access
089e631 scsi: mpt3sas: Don't print sense pool info twice
9526222 scsi: megaraid_sas: Fix crash after a double completion
1da2686 sfc: ef10: don't overwrite offload features at NIC reset
c5a159d SUNRPC: fix shutdown of NFS TCP client socket
43b70c9 mtd: rawnand: meson: invalidate cache on polling ECC bit
53dc0b6 platform/surface: aggregator: Add missing fwnode_handle_put()
f0a67ad platform/x86: think-lmi: Add possible_values for ThinkStation
5b2e50d platform/x86: think-lmi: only display possible_values if available
3991efd platform/x86: think-lmi: use correct possible_values delimiters
6c69f1a platform/x86: think-lmi: add missing type attribute
ba85e83 PCI: dwc: Fix PORT_LINK_CONTROL update when CDM check enabled
e39afd6 ALSA: usb-audio: Fix recursive locking at XRUN during syncing
2cdbcff mips: bmips: BCM6358: disable RAC flush for TP1
a07cf4f riscv/kvm: Fix VM hang in case of timer delta being zero.
60b2027 ca8210: Fix unsigned mac_len comparison with zero in ca8210_skb_tx()
8b46440 mtd: nand: mxic-ecc: Fix mxic_ecc_data_xfer_wait_for_completion() when irq is used
c84d28b mtd: rawnand: meson: initialize struct with zeroes
f5527b3 btrfs: use temporary variable for space_info in btrfs_update_block_group
bd265f2 btrfs: fix uninitialized variable warning in btrfs_update_block_group
089d656 tracing: Fix wrong return in kprobe_event_gen_test.c
88cdf1d tools/power turbostat: fix decoding of HWP_STATUS
6ecdea9 tools/power turbostat: Fix /dev/cpu_dma_latency warnings
2a3562e fbdev: au1200fb: Fix potential divide by zero
9f2a69d fbdev: lxfb: Fix potential divide by zero
8ab9ead fbdev: intelfb: Fix potential divide by zero
c8d8810 fbdev: nvidia: Fix potential divide by zero
35a32a5 net/mlx5e: Lower maximum allowed MTU in XSK to match XDP prerequisites
b969838 drm/amdkfd: Fixed kfd_process cleanup on module exit.
e437554 nvme-pci: add NVME_QUIRK_BOGUS_NID for Lexar NM620
c8943cf sched_getaffinity: don't assume 'cpumask_size()' is fully initialized
2961b33 ACPI: tools: pfrut: Check if the input of level and type is in the right numeric range
b8b7d5e fbdev: tgafb: Fix potential divide by zero
32854bc ALSA: hda/ca0132: fixup buffer overrun at tuning_ctl_set()
69280e8 ALSA: asihpi: check pao in control_message()
8b4dc07 net: hsr: Don't log netdev_err message on unknown prp dst node
5045360 drm/amdkfd: fix potential kgd_mem UAFs
b861f0e drm/amdkfd: fix a potential double free in pqm_create_queue
b61b21b drm/amdkfd: Fix BO offset for multi-VMA page migration
3e48f7b x86/PVH: obtain VGA console info in Dom0
df0833d md: avoid signed overflow in slot_store()
50f6507 ASoC: SOF: IPC4: update gain ipc msg definition to align with fw
6d0ab3e ASoC: SOF: Intel: pci-tng: revert invalid bar size setting
6290404 ASoC: SOF: ipc4-topology: Fix incorrect sample rate print unit
a56be07 ASoC: SOF: ipc3: Check for upper size limit for the received message
ab7a700 ACPI: video: Add backlight=native DMI quirk for Dell Vostro 15 3535
78b342f zstd: Fix definition of assert()
6beb321 ASoC: Intel: avs: nau8825: Adjust clock control
30878a7 ASoC: Intel: avs: ssm4567: Remove nau8825 bits
ea7950d ASoC: Intel: avs: da7219: Explicitly define codec format
d065206 ASoC: Intel: avs: max98357a: Explicitly define codec format
57f9a9a ASoC: codecs: tx-macro: Fix for KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds
5218af4 xfrm: Zero padding when dumping algos and encap
2b4830e cifs: fix missing unload_nls() in smb2_reconnect()
e0169d6 arm64: efi: Set NX compat flag in PE/COFF header
ec6cd79 net: mscc: ocelot: fix stats region batching
39cd75f tracing: Do not let histogram values have some modifiers
8ebeea1 tracing: Add .graph suffix option to histogram value
93454d1 tracing: Add .percent suffix option to histogram values
954fc99 tty: serial: fsl_lpuart: fix race on RX DMA shutdown
3a4d6f9 tty: serial: fsl_lpuart: switch to new dmaengine_terminate* API
33123ad drm/msm/disp/dpu: fix sc7280_pp base offset
3f7c483 drm/msm/dpu: correct sm8250 and sm8350 scaler
30fff49 drm/msm/dpu: Refactor sc7280_pp location
942100e ARM: dts: aspeed: p10bmc: Update battery node name
84cfcf2 riscv: ftrace: Fixup panic by disabling preemption
a35f863 net: ethernet: ti: am65-cpsw/cpts: Fix CPTS release action
64621e4 btrfs: zoned: count fresh BG region as zone unusable
ea34b8b btrfs: rename BTRFS_FS_NO_OVERCOMMIT to BTRFS_FS_ACTIVE_ZONE_TRACKING
bae092f kcsan: avoid passing -g for test
01f3150 kernel: kcsan: kcsan_test: build without structleak plugin
0b0e155 fsverity: don't drop pagecache at end of FS_IOC_ENABLE_VERITY
fc42602 zonefs: Fix error message in zonefs_file_dio_append()
81cf745 zonefs: Separate zone information from inode information
7558b24 zonefs: Reduce struct zonefs_inode_info size
3741898 zonefs: Simplify IO error handling
a624b47 zonefs: Reorganize code
9dad269 cifs: avoid race conditions with parallel reconnects
a5698f3 cifs: prevent data race in cifs_reconnect_tcon()
f60cdd3 cifs: update ip_addr for ses only for primary chan setup
eddee1c thunderbolt: Limit USB3 bandwidth of certain Intel USB4 host routers

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