The first XanMod Linux Kernel based on Linux Kernel 6.5.10 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.

Linux 6.5.10-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 6.5.10-xanmod1

• 537eb9e Linux 6.5.10-xanmod1
• fc99960 Merge tag 'v6.5.10' into 6.5
• 43a8685 Linux 6.5.10
• 062c1ba accel/ivpu/37xx: Fix missing VPUIP interrupts
• cdb4daf mm/damon/sysfs: check DAMOS regions update progress from before_terminate()
• a5c9f62 platform/x86: Add s2idle quirk for more Lenovo laptops
• adebf49 clk: stm32: Fix a signedness issue in clk_stm32_composite_determine_rate()
• 302479e clk: socfpga: gate: Account for the divider in determine_rate
• 5193aec clk: Sanitize possible_parent_show to Handle Return Value of of_clk_get_parent_name
• d1e0391 sparc32: fix a braino in fault handling in csum_and_copy_..._user()
• 5161778 perf/core: Fix potential NULL deref
• 25de47d x86/cpu: Add model number for Intel Arrow Lake mobile processor
• 3256ad9 x86/i8259: Skip probing when ACPI/MADT advertises PCAT compatibility
• 7f864ab x86/tsc: Defer marking TSC unstable to a worker
• cfa5aa4 nvmem: imx: correct nregs for i.MX6UL
• 4f6c3da nvmem: imx: correct nregs for i.MX6SLL
• 3e325ac nvmem: imx: correct nregs for i.MX6ULL
• bc0991e misc: fastrpc: Unmap only if buffer is unmapped from DSP
• 8e4afa8 misc: fastrpc: Clean buffers on remote invocation failures
• c2400bf misc: fastrpc: Free DMA handles for RPC calls with no arguments
• 0351f86 misc: fastrpc: Reset metadata buffer to avoid incorrect free
• 96790d3 tracing/kprobes: Fix the description of variable length arguments
• 63de22f tracing/kprobes: Fix symbol counting logic by looking at modules as well
• 001b2dc i2c: aspeed: Fix i2c bus hang in slave read
• 20062e7 i2c: stm32f7: Fix PEC handling in case of SMBUS transfers
• e505ca5 i2c: muxes: i2c-demux-pinctrl: Use of_get_i2c_adapter_by_node()
• 135e285 i2c: muxes: i2c-mux-gpmux: Use of_get_i2c_adapter_by_node()
• 2f7671a i2c: muxes: i2c-mux-pinctrl: Use of_get_i2c_adapter_by_node()
• 5f6dc4a iio: adc: xilinx-xadc: Correct temperature offset/scale for UltraScale
• f763aa2 iio: adc: xilinx-xadc: Don't clobber preset voltage/temperature thresholds
• f2bd3c0 iio: exynos-adc: request second interupt only when touchscreen mode is used
• 0a9bb3f iio: afe: rescale: Accept only offset channels
• 56e08cc io_uring/fdinfo: lock SQ thread while retrieving thread cpu/pid
• 1c43576 kasan: print the original fault addr when access invalid shadow
• 6cf9373 blk-throttle: check for overflow in calculate_bytes_allowed
• c031d9a scsi: sd: Introduce manage_shutdown device flag
• 927c770 iavf: in iavf_down, disable queues when removing the driver
• de30671 drm/i915/mcr: Hold GT forcewake during steering operations
• a90e92e drm/logicvc: Kconfig: select REGMAP and REGMAP_MMIO
• 180069f net/sched: act_ct: additional checks for outdated flows
• 533c24b netfilter: flowtable: GC pushes back packets to classic path
• 36cf7d1 i40e: Fix wrong check for I40E_TXR_FLAGS_WB_ON_ITR
• 4c898bd drm/i915/perf: Determine context valid in OA reports
• 9ba1543 gtp: fix fragmentation needed check with gso
• 62376a5 gtp: uapi: fix GTPA_MAX
• 450d6bf net/handshake: fix file ref count in handshake_nl_accept_doit()
• 8279cd3 wifi: mac80211: don't drop all unprotected public action frames
• 943431e wifi: cfg80211: fix assoc response warning on failed links
• 989ac93 wifi: cfg80211: pass correct pointer to rdev_inform_bss()
• 9617c77 tcp: fix wrong RTO timeout when received SACK reneging
• a22e193 r8152: Release firmware if we have an error in probe
• 0fd9553 r8152: Cancel hw_phy_work if we have an error in probe
• 56e8946 r8152: Run the unload routine if we have errors during probe
• 90b49a2 r8152: Increase USB control msg timeout to 5000ms as per spec
• c11f5c4 net: usb: smsc95xx: Fix uninit-value access in smsc95xx_read_reg
• 0d3295a net: ieee802154: adf7242: Fix some potential buffer overflow in adf7242_stats_show()
• 8e0e94b net: ethernet: adi: adin1110: Fix uninitialized variable
• fdba008 igc: Fix ambiguity in the ethtool advertising
• cf6fd6e neighbour: fix various data-races
• 5f9d199 net: do not leave an empty skb in write queue
• 7462118 igb: Fix potential memory leak in igb_add_ethtool_nfc_entry
• fd9d5ad treewide: Spelling fix in comment
• 7e5beb4 i40e: Fix I40E_FLAG_VF_VLAN_PRUNING value
• f927602 iavf: initialize waitqueues before starting watchdog_task
• bcbf3f4 r8169: fix the KCSAN reported data race in rtl_rx while reading desc->opts1
• 03599d8 r8169: fix the KCSAN reported data-race in rtl_tx while reading TxDescArray[entry].opts1
• 23473ff r8169: fix the KCSAN reported data-race in rtl_tx() while reading tp->cur_tx
• 3dacf77 clk: ti: Fix missing omap5 mcbsp functional clock and aliases
• 202f0a4 clk: ti: Fix missing omap4 mcbsp functional clock and aliases
• 7e6cde9 firmware/imx-dsp: Fix use_after_free in imx_dsp_setup_channels()
• ec4a1ee ARM: OMAP: timer32K: fix all kernel-doc warnings
• 0bc72b9 btrfs: fix unwritten extent buffer after snapshotting a new subvolume
• ca9cd8f btrfs: remove v0 extent handling
• 1df7ca3 drm/dp_mst: Fix NULL deref in get_mst_branch_device_by_guid_helper()
• ed93977 drm/amd: Disable ASPM for VI w/ all Intel systems
• 5692e4e drm/i915/pmu: Check if pmu is closed before stopping event
• 7c05a73 accel/ivpu: Don't enter d0i3 during FLR
• 4bb5ed3 ARM: dts: rockchip: Fix timer clocks for RK3128
• 6d6e82f ARM: dts: rockchip: Add missing quirk for RK3128's dma engine
• 835fdd9 ARM: dts: rockchip: Add missing arm timer interrupt for RK3128
• 568192d ARM: dts: rockchip: Fix i2c0 register address for RK3128
• f4b8ef2 ARM: OMAP1: ams-delta: Fix MODEM initialization failure
• 0a411c5 vdpa/mlx5: Fix double release of debugfs entry
• 37509b7 vdpa_sim_blk: Fix the potential leak of mgmt_dev
• a3e7e0d nfsd: lock_rename() needs both directories to live on the same fs
• 11bc9f5 maple_tree: add GFP_KERNEL to allocations in mas_expected_entries()
• 257931b hugetlbfs: extend hugetlb_vma_lock to private VMAs
• a6d2f04 mm/mempolicy: fix set_mempolicy_home_node() previous VMA pointer
• c0ade01 selftests/mm: include mman header to access MREMAP_DONTUNMAP identifier
• 941f6af mm/migrate: fix do_pages_move for compat pointers
• 5d6ea59 mm/page_alloc: correct start page when guard page debug is enabled
• 92c5dde hugetlbfs: clear resv_map pointer if mmap fails
• e3f64e0 mm: fix vm_brk_flags() to not bail out while holding lock
• 5ee66af i40e: sync next_to_clean and next_to_process for programming status desc
• 6ba04d5 arm64: dts: rockchip: Fix i2s0 pin conflict on ROCK Pi 4 boards
• 7bc9986 arm64: dts: rockchip: Add i2s0-2ch-bus-bclk-off pins to RK3399
• 7c5934f arm64: dts: qcom: sa8775p: correct PMIC GPIO label in gpio-ranges
• 7f5d458 arm64: dts: rockchip: set codec system-clock-fixed on px30-ringneck-haikou
• 51b3ef5 arm64: dts: rockchip: use codec as clock master on px30-ringneck-haikou
• aa7df18 arm64: dts: qcom: msm8996-xiaomi: fix missing clock populate
• d8b34f3 arm64: dts: qcom: apq8096-db820c: fix missing clock populate
• 368b3c7 vhost: Allow null msg.size on VHOST_IOTLB_INVALIDATE
• e83bce6 vsock/virtio: initialize the_virtio_vsock before using VQs
• 7efb541 virtio_pci: fix the common cfg map size
• 91dacc7 virtio-crypto: handle config changed by work queue
• 5f8c38e virtio-mmio: fix memory leak of vm_dev
• 84a5041 virtio_balloon: Fix endless deflation and inflation on arm64
• 436be19 smb: client: prevent new fids from being removed by laundromat
• f806b7e smb: client: make laundromat a delayed worker
• b8c0ab2 smb: client: do not start laundromat thread on nohandlecache
• b483b64 smb3: do not start laundromat thread when dir leases disabled
• 3027d30 smb3: allow controlling maximum number of cached directories
• 9cb2ea5 smb3: allow controlling length of time directory entries are cached with dir leases
• c3b054a vdpa/mlx5: Fix firmware error on creation of 1k VQs

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