A new XanMod Linux Kernel based on  Linux Kernel 6.1.72 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 6.1.72-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 6.1.72-xanmod1

• ee5d4d2 Linux 6.1.72-xanmod1
• 7b97383 netfilter: add xt_FLOWOFFLOAD target [v6.1.72+]
• 5736bc0 Merge tag 'v6.1.72' into 6.1
• f25dbd7 Revert "netfilter: add xt_FLOWOFFLOAD target rev_2"
• 7c58bfa Linux 6.1.72
• 2dbe25a Revert "interconnect: qcom: sm8250: Enable sync_state"
• f73a374 smb3: Replace smb2pdu 1-element arrays with flex-arrays
• ec16254 media: qcom: camss: Comment CSID dt_id field
• a5c3f2b bpf: syzkaller found null ptr deref in unix_bpf proto add
• 15db682 bpf: Fix a verifier bug due to incorrect branch offset comparison with cpu=v4
• 7cbdf36 net/sched: act_ct: Always fill offloading tuple iifidx
• 2be4e8a net/sched: act_ct: additional checks for outdated flows
• 87318b7 f2fs: compress: fix to assign compress_level for lz4 correctly
• 397f719 genirq/affinity: Only build SMP-only helper functions on SMP kernels
• 28c9222 mmc: sdhci-sprd: Fix eMMC init failure after hw reset
• 2813a43 mmc: core: Cancel delayed work before releasing host
• 575e127 mmc: rpmb: fixes pause retune on all RPMB partitions.
• 9c5efaa mmc: meson-mx-sdhc: Fix initialization frozen issue
• 48e1d42 drm/amd/display: add nv12 bounding box
• 11c3510 drm/amdgpu: skip gpu_info fw loading on navi12
• dafdeb7 mm: fix unmap_mapping_range high bits shift bug
• 0803806 i2c: core: Fix atomic xfer check for non-preempt config
• 53b42cb x86/kprobes: fix incorrect return address calculation in kprobe_emulate_call_indirect
• d1db1ef firewire: ohci: suppress unexpected system reboot in AMD Ryzen machines and ASM108x/VT630x PCIe cards
• 09a44d9 ring-buffer: Fix 32-bit rb_time_read() race with rb_time_cmpxchg()
• 820a780 btrfs: mark the len field in struct btrfs_ordered_sum as unsigned
• ab220f4 btrfs: fix qgroup_free_reserved_data int overflow
• 0f74dde octeontx2-af: Support variable number of lmacs
• 7d39126 octeontx2-af: Fix pause frame configuration
• a29b15c net/sched: act_ct: Take per-cb reference to tcf_ct_flow_table
• 2bb4ecb netfilter: flowtable: GC pushes back packets to classic path
• df01de0 net/sched: act_ct: Fix promotion of offloaded unreplied tuple
• 87466a3 net/sched: act_ct: offload UDP NEW connections
• 8b160f2 netfilter: flowtable: cache info of last offload
• c29a765 netfilter: flowtable: allow unidirectional rules
• e681f71 net: sched: call tcf_ct_params_free to free params in tcf_ct_init
• d49bf9c mm/memory_hotplug: fix error handling in add_memory_resource()
• 4666f00 mm/memory_hotplug: add missing mem_hotplug_lock
• a576780 lib/group_cpus.c: avoid acquiring cpu hotplug lock in group_cpus_evenly
• f33b27f genirq/affinity: Move group_cpus_evenly() into lib/
• 617ba37 genirq/affinity: Rename irq_build_affinity_masks as group_cpus_evenly
• aeeb4e4 genirq/affinity: Don't pass irq_affinity_desc array to irq_build_affinity_masks
• 9e84d7b genirq/affinity: Pass affinity managed mask array to irq_build_affinity_masks
• a1dcd17 genirq/affinity: Remove the 'firstvec' parameter from irq_build_affinity_masks
• f4fe764 ALSA: hda/realtek: Add quirk for Lenovo Yoga Pro 7
• aee6093 firmware: arm_scmi: Fix frequency truncation by promoting multiplier type
• 90d1f74 bpf, sockmap: af_unix stream sockets need to hold ref for pair sock
• 5ff1682 ethtool: don't propagate EOPNOTSUPP from dumps
• e570b15 dpaa2-eth: recycle the RX buffer only after all processing done
• 5b8938f net: dpaa2-eth: rearrange variable in dpaa2_eth_get_ethtool_stats
• e88275c smb: client: fix missing mode bits for SMB symlinks
• bf223fd block: update the stable_writes flag in bdev_add
• a8e4300 filemap: add a per-mapping stable writes flag
• d0eafc7 mm, netfs, fscache: stop read optimisation when folio removed from pagecache
• bceff38 mm: merge folio_has_private()/filemap_release_folio() call pairs
• 8b6b3ec memory-failure: convert truncate_error_page() to use folio
• a6f440f khugepage: replace try_to_release_page() with filemap_release_folio()
• 4c78612 ext4: convert move_extent_per_page() to use folios
• b92a8f5 media: qcom: camss: Fix set CSI2_RX_CFG1_VC_MODE when VC is greater than 3
• 710f705 media: camss: sm8250: Virtual channels for CSID
• c96a4f9 selftests: mptcp: set FAILING_LINKS in run_tests
• 4b85e92 selftests: mptcp: fix fastclose with csum failure
• 336d1ee f2fs: set the default compress_level on ioctl
• 1ff3f5e f2fs: assign default compression level
• 55d3f41 f2fs: convert to use bitmap API
• 84a8d91 f2fs: clean up i_compress_flag and i_compress_level usage
• 2c14f49 s390/cpumf: support user space events for counting
• a1a1e5c s390/mm: add missing arch_set_page_dat() call to vmem_crst_alloc()
• 31051f7 net/mlx5: Increase size of irq name buffer
• b5c8e0f blk-mq: make sure active queue usage is held for bio_integrity_prep()
• 803fb61 bpf: fix precision backtracking instruction iteration
• b08acd5 bpf: handle ldimm64 properly in check_cfg()
• 2c795ce bpf: Support new 32bit offset jmp instruction
• b1c780e bpf: clean up visit_insn()'s instruction processing
• 97bb6da bpf: Remove unused insn_cnt argument from visit_[func_call_]insn()
• 8266c47 bpf: remove unnecessary prune and jump points
• 743f354 bpf: decouple prune and jump points
• eb4f2e1 fbdev: imsttfb: fix double free in probe()
• f2a79f3 fbdev: imsttfb: Release framebuffer and dealloc cmap on error path
• 51a1b94 arm64: dts: qcom: sdm845: Fix PSCI power domain names
• 5db8b93 arm64: dts: qcom: sdm845: align RPMh regulator nodes with bindings
• 343bb27 wifi: iwlwifi: yoyo: swap cdb and jacket bits values
• 158b71f udp: annotate data-races around udp->encap_type
• 8d929b6 udp: lockless UDP_ENCAP_L2TPINUDP / UDP_GRO
• b680a90 udp: move udp->accept_udp_{l4|fraglist} to udp->udp_flags
• 753886c udp: move udp->gro_enabled to udp->udp_flags
• a01cff1 udp: move udp->no_check6_rx to udp->udp_flags
• 50e41aa udp: move udp->no_check6_tx to udp->udp_flags
• e2a4392 udp: introduce udp->udp_flags
• 2489502 ipv4, ipv6: Use splice_eof() to flush
• 4713b7c splice, net: Add a splice_eof op to file-ops and socket-ops
• ac8c69e udp: Convert udp_sendpage() to use MSG_SPLICE_PAGES
• 6bcc79a net: Declare MSG_SPLICE_PAGES internal sendmsg() flag
• 89b51e7 bpf, x86: save/restore regs with BPF_DW size
• 4ee461c bpf, x86: Simplify the parsing logic of structure parameters
• 605c8d8 bpf, x64: Fix tailcall infinite loop
• 5573fdb srcu: Fix callbacks acceleration mishandling
• abc3e3f cpu/SMT: Make SMT control more robust against enumeration failures
• 482fa21 cpu/SMT: Create topology_smt_thread_allowed()
• a364c18 selftests: secretmem: floor the memory size to the multiple of page_size
• c38c5cf net: Implement missing SO_TIMESTAMPING_NEW cmsg support
• 14937f4 bnxt_en: Remove mis-applied code from bnxt_cfg_ntp_filters()
• 55fbcd8 net: ravb: Wait for operating mode to be applied
• 8a09b0f asix: Add check for usbnet_get_endpoints
• db9c4a1 octeontx2-af: Re-enable MAC TX in otx2_stop processing
• b67e7d7 octeontx2-af: Always configure NIX TX link credits based on max frame size
• 84c3833 net/smc: fix invalid link access in dumping SMC-R connections
• 0af7584 net/qla3xxx: fix potential memleak in ql_alloc_buffer_queues
• 9b05042 igc: Fix hicredit calculation
• 7663226 i40e: Restore VF MSI-X state during PCI reset
• 5735f52 ASoC: meson: g12a-tohdmitx: Fix event generation for S/PDIF mux
• 8719838 ASoC: meson: g12a-toacodec: Fix event generation
• 5de3c84 ASoC: meson: g12a-tohdmitx: Validate written enum values
• 95b4d40 ASoC: meson: g12a-toacodec: Validate written enum values
• 2f3b6e8 i40e: fix use-after-free in i40e_aqc_add_filters()
• 72fa661 net: Save and restore msg_namelen in sock_sendmsg
• 81f8a99 netfilter: nft_immediate: drop chain reference counter on error
• bb1bf97 net: bcmgenet: Fix FCS generation for fragmented skbuffs
• e75715e sfc: fix a double-free bug in efx_probe_filters
• 725d44e ARM: sun9i: smp: Fix array-index-out-of-bounds read in sunxi_mc_smp_init
• 85f6fae selftests: bonding: do not set port down when adding to bond
• 3edd66b net: Implement missing getsockopt(SO_TIMESTAMPING_NEW)
• ac5fde9 net: annotate data-races around sk->sk_bind_phc
• c48fcb4 net: annotate data-races around sk->sk_tsflags
• 5d586f7 net-timestamp: extend SOF_TIMESTAMPING_OPT_ID to HW timestamps
• b213036 can: raw: add support for SO_MARK
• 633a49e r8169: Fix PCI error on system resume
• 565460e net: sched: em_text: fix possible memory leak in em_text_destroy()
• ac5cbe9 mlxbf_gige: fix receive packet race condition
• 6d7f454 ASoC: mediatek: mt8186: fix AUD_PAD_TOP register and offset
• 811604f ASoC: fsl_rpmsg: Fix error handler with pm_runtime_enable
• c3a37dc igc: Check VLAN EtherType mask
• 6edff0b igc: Check VLAN TCI mask
• d27b98f igc: Report VLAN EtherType matching back to user
• e76d191 i40e: Fix filter input checks to prevent config with invalid values
• 188c997 ice: Shut down VSI with "link-down-on-close" enabled
• 83b8017 ice: Fix link_down_on_close message
• f3f6a23 drm/i915/dp: Fix passing the correct DPCD_REV for drm_dp_set_phy_test_pattern
• 6cf7235 octeontx2-af: Fix marking couple of structure as __packed
• a4b0a9b nfc: llcp_core: Hold a ref to llcp_local->dev when holding a ref to llcp_local
• 282e3fb netfilter: nf_tables: set transport offset from mac header for netdev/egress
• 9487cc4 netfilter: use skb_ip_totlen and iph_totlen
• 5f523f1 drm/bridge: ti-sn65dsi86: Never store more than msg->size bytes in AUX xfer
• 3da4868 wifi: iwlwifi: pcie: don't synchronize IRQs from IRQ
• 493d556 KVM: x86/pmu: fix masking logic for MSR_CORE_PERF_GLOBAL_CTRL
• 3152a7d cifs: do not depend on release_iface for maintaining iface_list
• 5982a62 cifs: cifs_chan_is_iface_active should be called with chan_lock held
• 4afcb82 drm/mgag200: Fix gamma lut not initialized for G200ER, G200EV, G200SE
• b9c370b Revert "PCI/ASPM: Remove pcie_aspm_pm_state_change()"
• af9a530 mptcp: prevent tcp diag from closing listener subflows
• 105063f ALSA: hda/realtek: Fix mute and mic-mute LEDs for HP ProBook 440 G6
• 0fa3cf2 ALSA: hda/realtek: fix mute/micmute LEDs for a HP ZBook
• beda900 ALSA: hda/realtek: enable SND_PCI_QUIRK for hp pavilion 14-ec1xxx series
• 9539e3b block: Don't invalidate pagecache for invalid falloc modes
• 079eefa keys, dns: Fix missing size check of V1 server-list header

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