A new XanMod Linux Kernel based on the latest Linux Kernel 6.1.8 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 6.1.8-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 6.1.8-xanmod1

3dcd53f Linux 6.1.8-xanmod1
00f4b7c Bluetooth: Fix issue with Actions Semi ATS2851 based devices
2528ea7 Revert "drm/display/dp_mst: Move all payload info into the atomic state"
9e11ec3 Merge tag 'v6.1.8' into 6.1
93f875a Linux 6.1.8
ebb677d soc: qcom: apr: Make qcom,protection-domain optional again
effecd8 Revert "wifi: mac80211: fix memory leak in ieee80211_if_add()"
fa6357d block: mq-deadline: Rename deadline_is_seq_writes()
5a69ecc net/mlx5: fix missing mutex_unlock in mlx5_fw_fatal_reporter_err_work()
659518e octeontx2-pf: Fix the use of GFP_KERNEL in atomic context on rt
ddb9808 net/ulp: use consistent error code when blocking ULP
1eb57b8 octeontx2-pf: Avoid use of GFP_KERNEL in atomic context
6da17ac drm/amdgpu: correct MEC number for gfx11 APUs
40a66b6 drm/amdgpu: add tmz support for GC IP v11.0.4
a63bd05 drm/amdgpu: add tmz support for GC 11.0.1
a748054 drm/amdgpu: enable GFX Clock Gating control for GC IP v11.0.4
834a914 drm/amdgpu: enable GFX Power Gating for GC IP v11.0.4
09af1ee drm/amdgpu: enable GFX IP v11.0.4 CG support
8cbe04b drm/amdgpu: enable PSP IP v13.0.11 support
11ffb99 drm/amdgpu/discovery: enable nbio support for NBIO v7.7.1
703011b drm/amdgpu/pm: use the specific mailbox registers only for SMU IP v13.0.4
fe4d9fb drm/amdgpu/soc21: add mode2 asic reset for SMU IP v13.0.11
c776433 drm/amdgpu/pm: add GFXOFF control IP version check for SMU IP v13.0.11
6ed56b8 drm/amdgpu: add smu 13 support for smu 13.0.11
bb85605 drm/amdgpu/pm: enable swsmu for SMU IP v13.0.11
3ed03b0 drm/amdgpu/discovery: add PSP IP v13.0.11 support
7d1e227 drm/amdgpu: add gmc v11 support for GC 11.0.4
ea8f7ac drm/amdgpu: add gfx support for GC 11.0.4
09157e8 drm/amdgpu/discovery: set the APU flag for GC 11.0.4
333814d drm/amdgpu: set GC 11.0.4 family
2ecc262 drm/amdgpu/discovery: enable mes support for GC v11.0.4
db4fa3b drm/amdgpu/discovery: enable gfx v11 for GC 11.0.4
907d5b6 drm/amdgpu/discovery: enable gmc v11 for GC 11.0.4
7085090 drm/amdgpu/discovery: enable soc21 common for GC 11.0.4
2705a95 x86/fpu: Use _Alignof to avoid undefined behavior in TYPE_ALIGN
a18417e exit: Use READ_ONCE() for all oops/warn limit reads
3f38c21 docs: Fix path paste-o for /sys/kernel/warn_count
72c93f9 panic: Expose "warn_count" to sysfs
f53b6dd panic: Introduce warn_limit
13aa82f panic: Consolidate open-coded panic_on_warn checks
e073872 exit: Allow oops_limit to be disabled
46cacd7 exit: Expose "oops_count" to sysfs
767997e exit: Put an upper limit on how often we can oops
acc767c panic: Separate sysctl logic from CONFIG_SMP
72b0e5f efi: rt-wrapper: Add missing include
f75a91c arm64: efi: Execute runtime services from a dedicated stack
ff3b1a6 fs/ntfs3: Fix attr_punch_hole() null pointer derenference
b542cb0 cifs: reduce roundtrips on create/qinfo requests
bf9261e drm/amd/display: disable S/G display on DCN 3.1.4
3ad10fc drm/amd/display: disable S/G display on DCN 3.1.5
b105b79 drm/amd/display: Fix COLOR_SPACE_YCBCR2020_TYPE matrix
87e84d0 drm/amd/display: Calculate output_color_space after pixel encoding adjustment
032cebd drm/amd/display: Fix set scaling doesn's work
92c39d6 drm/i915: Remove unused variable
4397bcb drm/i915: Allow switching away via vga-switcheroo if uninitialized
597747e drm/i915/display: Check source height is > 0
38a9b17 drm/i915: re-disable RC6p on Sandy Bridge
8dabe4e drm/amdgpu: Correct the power calcultion for Renior/Cezanne.
d693fdf drm/amdgpu: allow multipipe policy on ASICs with one MEC
af4a3c2 drm/amdgpu: fix amdgpu_job_free_resources v2
cfb7a66 ARM: omap1: fix !ARCH_OMAP1_ANY link failures
4cc5622 ARM: dts: qcom: apq8084-ifc6540: fix overriding SDHCI
548ea9d VMCI: Use threaded irqs instead of tasklets
32b39dc mei: me: add meteor lake point M DID
a63171d mei: bus: fix unlink on bus in error path
6646d76 gsmi: fix null-deref in gsmi_get_variable
1c5aaff serial: exar: Add support for Sealevel 7xxxC serial cards
13efa6b serial: atmel: fix incorrect baudrate setup
ab47d38 serial: amba-pl011: fix high priority character transmission in rs486 mode
e7c07de dmaengine: idxd: Do not call DMX TX callbacks during workqueue disable
b9e8e3f dmaengine: idxd: Prevent use after free on completion memory
99dc452 dmaengine: idxd: Let probe fail when workqueue cannot be enabled
8802fea dmaengine: tegra210-adma: fix global intr clear
16848ca dmaengine: lgm: Move DT parsing after initialization
16b18ee serial: pch_uart: Pass correct sg to dma_unmap_sg()
caf81ca dt-bindings: phy: g12a-usb3-pcie-phy: fix compatible string documentation
f1288e0 dt-bindings: phy: g12a-usb2-phy: fix compatible string documentation
1f1007d arm64: dts: imx8mp: correct usb clocks
2cab24b usb-storage: apply IGNORE_UAS only for HIKSEMI MD202 on RTL9210
09e4507 usb: gadget: f_ncm: fix potential NULL ptr deref in ncm_bitrate()
96abcf7 USB: gadget: Add ID numbers to configfs-gadget driver names
f9c8c6b usb: gadget: g_webcam: Send color matching descriptor per frame
184cfc6 usb: typec: altmodes/displayport: Fix pin assignment calculation
632b223 usb: typec: altmodes/displayport: Add pin assignment helper
9a027ee usb: typec: tcpm: Fix altmode re-registration causes sysfs create fail
421492f usb: musb: fix error return code in omap2430_probe()
b3fdc02 usb: host: ehci-fsl: Fix module alias
34f207e usb: cdns3: remove fetched trb from cache before dequeuing
feb7840 USB: serial: cp210x: add SCALANCE LPE-9000 device id
616fd34 USB: gadgetfs: Fix race between mounting and unmounting
f595498 selftests: mptcp: userspace: validate v4-v6 subflows mix
f44ce13 mptcp: netlink: respect v4/v6-only sockets
1423c12 mptcp: explicitly specify sock family at subflow creation time
36fc731 io_uring/poll: don't reissue in case of poll race on multishot request
66144d8 pktcdvd: check for NULL returna fter calling bio_split_to_limits()
64152e0 tty: fix possible null-ptr-defer in spk_ttyio_release
fd524ca tty: serial: qcom-geni-serial: fix slab-out-of-bounds on RX FIFO buffer
8de08b0 bpf: restore the ebpf program ID for BPF_AUDIT_UNLOAD and PERF_BPF_EVENT_PROG_UNLOAD
ea41602 riscv: dts: sifive: fu740: fix size of pcie 32bit memory
d1b531e thunderbolt: Do not call PM runtime functions in tb_retimer_scan()
16b4b0f thunderbolt: Do not report errors if on-board retimers are found
15a2e23 thunderbolt: Use correct function to calculate maximum USB3 link rate
627ae8c thunderbolt: Disable XDomain lane 1 only in software connection manager
d048df8 cifs: do not include page data when checking signature
1004fc9 btrfs: fix race between quota rescan and disable leading to NULL pointer deref
8af00fc btrfs: fix invalid leaf access due to inline extent during lseek
bb2c2e6 btrfs: qgroup: do not warn on record without old_roots populated
34fe5b5 btrfs: do not abort transaction on failure to update log root
23ffd7f btrfs: do not abort transaction on failure to write log tree when syncing log
076fb04 btrfs: add missing setup of log for full commit at add_conflicting_inode()
f4c0df5 btrfs: fix directory logging due to race with concurrent index key deletion
168492d btrfs: fix missing error handling when logging directory items
6ec8411 btrfs: add extra error messages to cover non-ENOMEM errors from device_add_list()
f2f52dd mm/MADV_COLLAPSE: don't expand collapse when vm_end is past requested end
bcde505 mm/userfaultfd: enable writenotify while userfaultfd-wp is enabled for a VMA
3b8ede6 mm/hugetlb: pre-allocate pgtable pages for uffd wr-protects
8d6a675 mm/hugetlb: fix uffd-wp handling for migration entries in hugetlb_change_protection()
6062c99 mm/hugetlb: fix PTE marker handling in hugetlb_change_protection()
33b1610 mmc: sdhci-esdhc-imx: correct the tuning start tap and step setting
b7465be mmc: sunxi-mmc: Fix clock refcount imbalance during unbind
7a106e8 ACPI: PRM: Check whether EFI runtime is available
580a2a5 comedi: adv_pci1760: Fix PWM instruction handling
6a1594a usb: core: hub: disable autosuspend for TI TUSB8041
079c78c misc: fastrpc: Fix use-after-free race condition for maps
35ddd48 misc: fastrpc: Don't remove map on creater_process and device_release
a50c5c2 misc: fastrpc: Fix use-after-free and race in fastrpc_map_find
bab5687 usb: misc: onboard_hub: Move 'attach' work to the driver
cbb0da6 usb: misc: onboard_hub: Invert driver registration order
aa5b959 USB: misc: iowarrior: fix up header size for USB_DEVICE_ID_CODEMERCS_IOW100
5d6ecc6 staging: vchiq_arm: fix enum vchiq_status return types
32117ec USB: serial: option: add Quectel EM05CN modem
2c16364 USB: serial: option: add Quectel EM05CN (SG) modem
5fd4694 USB: serial: option: add Quectel EC200U modem
1048bc1 USB: serial: option: add Quectel EM05-G (RS) modem
1e39e0b USB: serial: option: add Quectel EM05-G (CS) modem
4173c54 USB: serial: option: add Quectel EM05-G (GR) modem
9118556 prlimit: do_prlimit needs to have a speculation check
08bf23c xhci: Detect lpm incapable xHC USB3 roothub ports from ACPI tables
b7904d2 usb: acpi: add helper to check port lpm capability using acpi _DSM
8c36de0 xhci: Add a flag to disable USB3 lpm on a xhci root port level.
60c1eb0 xhci: Add update_hub_device override for PCI xHCI hosts
ea2ee5e xhci: Fix null pointer dereference when host dies
08864dc usb: xhci: Check endpoint is valid before dereferencing it
0a8a71c xhci-pci: set the dma max_seg_size
806e5ac Revert "serial: stm32: Merge hard IRQ and threaded IRQ handling into single IRQ handler"
2b5412c serial: stm32: Merge hard IRQ and threaded IRQ handling into single IRQ handler
48b94e4 mm/khugepaged: fix collapse_pte_mapped_thp() to allow anon_vma
63f71b8 hugetlb: unshare some PMDs when splitting VMAs
1cb76f5 mm/shmem: restore SHMEM_HUGE_DENY precedence over MADV_COLLAPSE
0bf4639 nilfs2: fix general protection fault in nilfs_btree_insert()
d3317ba zonefs: Detect append writes at invalid locations
87615c0 LoongArch: Add HWCAP_LOONGARCH_CPUCFG to elf_hwcap
51a7ad5 Add exception protection processing for vd in axi_chan_handle_err function
6d11411 proc: fix PIE proc-empty-vm, proc-pid-vm tests
e733121 nommu: fix split_vma() map_count error
6447569 nommu: fix do_munmap() error path
1442d51 nommu: fix memory leak in do_mmap() error path
a57c981 wifi: mac80211: fix initialization of rx->link and rx->link_sta
c838df8 wifi: mac80211: sdata can be NULL during AMPDU start
b8d1d53 wifi: mac80211: reset multiple BSSID options in stop_ap()
10644c9 wifi: mac80211: fix MLO + AP_VLAN check
1590cee wifi: brcmfmac: fix regression for Broadcom PCIe wifi devices
ea3ebda Bluetooth: hci_qca: Fix driver shutdown on closed serdev
3b062a4 Bluetooth: hci_sync: Fix use HCI_OP_LE_READ_BUFFER_SIZE_V2
4e18618 fbdev: omapfb: avoid stack overflow warning
b019db2 of: fdt: Honor CONFIG_CMDLINE* even without /chosen node, take 2
3848b6b perf/x86/rapl: Add support for Intel Emerald Rapids
f5f3c92 perf/x86/rapl: Add support for Intel Meteor Lake
6fb614c memblock tests: Fix compilation error.
0602666 cifs: fix race in assemble_neg_contexts()
66c8b7b perf/x86/rapl: Treat Tigerlake like Icelake
1c38cdc f2fs: let's avoid panic if extent_tree is not created
8ca7187 x86/asm: Fix an assembler warning with current binutils
853ffa1 btrfs: always report error in run_one_delayed_ref()
5744ba4 selftests: net: fix cmsg_so_mark.sh test hang
307e8d9 RDMA/srp: Move large values to a new enum for gcc13
6c27fc1 bpf: keep a reference to the mm, in case the task is dead.
af0bedf r8169: fix dmar pte write access is not set error
315a779 r8169: move rtl_wol_enable_rx() and rtl_prepare_power_down()
27b5107 net/ethtool/ioctl: return -EOPNOTSUPP if we have no phy stats
11891c8 vdpa_sim_net: should not drop the multicast/broadcast packet
c6c6af9 vduse: Validate vq_num in vduse_validate_config()
ab23a6d virtio_pci: modify ENOENT to EINVAL
af3fca7 vdpa/mlx5: Avoid overwriting CVQ iotlb
909b965 vdpa/mlx5: Avoid using reslock in event_handler
6dbffca vdpa/mlx5: Return error on vlan ctrl commands if not supported
dc6466f tools/virtio: initialize spinlocks in vring_test.c
a65644c net: ethernet: marvell: octeontx2: Fix uninitialized variable warning
2e5d5c4 selftests/bpf: check null propagation only neither reg is PTR_TO_BTF_ID
16e7fb3 pNFS/filelayout: Fix coalescing test for single DS
7704364 wifi: iwlwifi: fw: skip PPAG for JF
d160705 btrfs: fix trace event name typo for FLUSH_DELAYED_REFS
34762a3 dma-buf: fix dma_buf_export init order v2

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