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A new XanMod Linux Kernel based on the latest Linux Kernel 6.4.7 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 6.4.7-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-xanmodlinux-xanmod-edgelinux-xanmod-ltslinux-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 6.4.7-xanmod1

  • 3dcc7dc Linux 6.4.7-xanmod1
  • a6ad946 Merge tag 'v6.4.7' into 6.4
  • 4e382c2 Linux 6.4.7
  • 8ab7147 Revert "drm/amd/display: edp do not add non-edid timings"
  • e4f8914 drm/amd/display: Add polling method to handle MST reply packet
  • cae6940 drm/amd/display: Clean up errors & warnings in amdgpu_dm.c
  • 3601729 scsi: sg: Fix checking return value of blk_get_queue()
  • 1e391c7 scsi/sg: don't grab scsi host module reference
  • 92e80c6 spi: dw: Remove misleading comment for Mount Evans SoC
  • e7cf50e drm/ttm: fix bulk_move corruption when adding a entry
  • 5339e36 tracing/histograms: Return an error if we fail to add histogram to hist_vars list
  • 801d026 kbuild: rust: avoid creating temporary files
  • a448856 jbd2: recheck chechpointing non-dirty buffer
  • da1818a net: phy: prevent stale pointer dereference in phy_init()
  • 4a6ebe8 tcp: annotate data-races around fastopenq.max_qlen
  • a1d2126 tcp: annotate data-races around icsk->icsk_user_timeout
  • 3c475a0 tcp: annotate data-races around tp->notsent_lowat
  • c52aa6a tcp: annotate data-races around rskq_defer_accept
  • 279e1cf tcp: annotate data-races around tp->linger2
  • a2da353 tcp: annotate data-races around icsk->icsk_syn_retries
  • 80cd184 tcp: annotate data-races around tp->keepalive_probes
  • 7416761 tcp: annotate data-races around tp->keepalive_intvl
  • b9fcb59 tcp: annotate data-races around tp->keepalive_time
  • ed49960 tcp: annotate data-races around tp->tsoffset
  • 2b8c25d tcp: annotate data-races around tp->tcp_tx_delay
  • bb9c26f Bluetooth: btusb: Fix bluetooth on Intel Macbook 2014
  • 1add77d Bluetooth: SCO: fix sco_conn related locking and validity issues
  • 357ab53 Bluetooth: hci_conn: return ERR_PTR instead of NULL when there is no link
  • bf00c2c Bluetooth: hci_sync: Avoid use-after-free in dbg for hci_remove_adv_monitor()
  • 88ad50f Bluetooth: ISO: fix iso_conn related locking and validity issues
  • 093a070 Bluetooth: hci_event: call disconnect callback before deleting conn
  • cef88a0 Bluetooth: use RCU for hci_conn_params and iterate safely in hci_sync
  • ab87c6b netfilter: nf_tables: skip bound chain on rule flush
  • b2bdf3f netfilter: nf_tables: skip bound chain in netns release path
  • 48dbb5d netfilter: nft_set_pipapo: fix improper element removal
  • d78a375 netfilter: nf_tables: can't schedule in nft_chain_validate
  • 08ca12f netfilter: nf_tables: fix spurious set element insertion failure
  • 540075c ALSA: hda/realtek: Fix generic fixup definition for cs35l41 amp
  • b7117b7 llc: Don't drop packet from non-root netns.
  • b492d37 fbdev: au1200fb: Fix missing IRQ check in au1200fb_drv_probe
  • 41d5ae3 net: ethernet: mtk_eth_soc: always mtk_get_ib1_pkt_type
  • 70a2d37 Revert "tcp: avoid the lookup process failing to get sk in ehash table"
  • cba5b13 net:ipv6: check return value of pskb_trim()
  • ef0fe1a net: ipv4: Use kfree_sensitive instead of kfree
  • 7552f8e tcp: annotate data-races around tcp_rsk(req)->ts_recent
  • d546247 tcp: annotate data-races around tcp_rsk(req)->txhash
  • 67f6f18 net: ipv4: use consistent txhash in TIME_WAIT and SYN_RECV
  • d5c3b02 igc: Prevent garbled TX queue with XDP ZEROCOPY
  • c625581 igc: Avoid transmit queue timeout for XDP
  • 7a4c793 bpf, arm64: Fix BTI type used for freplace attached functions
  • 275d574 bpf: Repeat check_max_stack_depth for async callbacks
  • 5e13be2 bpf: Fix subprog idx logic in check_max_stack_depth
  • 521c84b octeontx2-pf: Dont allocate BPIDs for LBK interfaces
  • 6a183c7 vrf: Fix lockdep splat in output path
  • cecb533 security: keys: Modify mismatched function name
  • 532fbfc iavf: fix reset task race with iavf_remove()
  • 63d14a4 iavf: fix a deadlock caused by rtnl and driver's lock circular dependencies
  • d554957 iavf: Wait for reset in callbacks which trigger it
  • e631b18 iavf: make functions static where possible
  • 5e9db32 iavf: use internal state to free traffic IRQs
  • 65ecebc iavf: Fix out-of-bounds when setting channels on remove
  • 8d781a9 iavf: Fix use-after-free in free_netdev
  • 21d9202 drm/i915/perf: add sentinel to xehp_oa_b_counters
  • 899057a r8169: fix ASPM-related problem for chip version 42 and 43
  • 024825d net: dsa: microchip: correct KSZ8795 static MAC table access
  • 6777dfa net: sched: cls_bpf: Undo tcf_bind_filter in case of an error
  • cec095b net: sched: cls_u32: Undo refcount decrement in case update failed
  • 025159e net: sched: cls_u32: Undo tcf_bind_filter if u32_replace_hw_knode
  • 1134cea net: sched: cls_matchall: Undo tcf_bind_filter in case of failure after mall_set_parms
  • 04a025b regulator: da9063: fix null pointer deref with partial DT config
  • d923485 ASoC: SOF: ipc3-dtrace: uninitialized data in dfsentry_trace_filter_write()
  • ca03b32 ice: prevent NULL pointer deref during reload
  • 9751240 ice: Unregister netdev and devlink_port only once
  • 57d25e9 cifs: fix mid leak during reconnection after timeout threshold
  • 9ee1fce iommu/sva: Fix signedness bug in iommu_sva_alloc_pasid()
  • 52367a2 gso: fix dodgy bit handling for GSO_UDP_L4
  • 2fffd17 net: ethernet: mtk_eth_soc: handle probe deferral
  • d8415ab bridge: Add extack warning when enabling STP in netns.
  • 9234844 net: ethernet: ti: cpsw_ale: Fix cpsw_ale_get_field()/cpsw_ale_set_field()
  • 445b301 dsa: mv88e6xxx: Do a final check before timing out
  • 0524597 arm64: Fix HFGxTR_EL2 field naming
  • eb38219 smb: client: fix missed ses refcounting
  • 224ff8d kallsyms: strip LTO-only suffixes from promoted global functions
  • 03e37c9 spi: s3c64xx: clear loopback bit after loopback test
  • 0d7c593 btrfs: be a bit more careful when setting mirror_num_ret in btrfs_map_block
  • 3b1297c perf build: Fix library not found error when using CSLIBS
  • 38282a9 fbdev: imxfb: Removed unneeded release_mem_region
  • 1a7ea3b fbdev: imxfb: warn about invalid left/right margin
  • 46d461f spi: bcm63xx: fix max prepend length
  • 6d65f4a pinctrl: renesas: rzg2l: Handle non-unique subnode names
  • 3775d58 pinctrl: renesas: rzv2m: Handle non-unique subnode names
  • d124ab1 sched/psi: use kernfs polling functions for PSI trigger polling
  • cf954dd sched/fair: Use recent_used_cpu to test p->cpus_ptr
  • 04db1d8 iov_iter: Mark copy_iovec_from_user() noclone
  • ea5f73d ASoC: qcom: q6apm: do not close GPR port before closing graph
  • 35e3982 ASoC: codecs: wcd938x: fix dB range for HPHL and HPHR
  • 3a5a058 ASoC: codecs: wcd938x: fix mbhc impedance loglevel
  • 8e7b006 ASoC: amd: acp: fix for invalid dai id handling in acp_get_byte_count()
  • 1462188 net: hns3: fix strncpy() not using dest-buf length as length issue
  • 41f63b7 igb: Fix igb_down hung on surprise removal
  • ed64a07 wifi: iwlwifi: pcie: add device id 51F1 for killer 1675
  • 65b76a2 wifi: iwlwifi: mvm: avoid baid size integer overflow
  • 4183441 wifi: iwlwifi: Add support for new PCI Id
  • 8c3178d wifi: wext-core: Fix -Wstringop-overflow warning in ioctl_standard_iw_point()
  • bb4d473 wifi: iwlwifi: mvm: Add NULL check before dereferencing the pointer
  • 21b9e0e devlink: report devlink_port_type_warn source device
  • 46393b8 net: ethernet: litex: add support for 64 bit stats
  • 133b1cd wifi: iwlwifi: mvm: fix potential array out of bounds access
  • 55248d3 wifi: ath11k: fix memory leak in WMI firmware stats
  • 7382d02 wifi: ath12k: Avoid NULL pointer access during management transmit cleanup
  • 5fc72f4 spi: dw: Add compatible for Intel Mount Evans SoC
  • a8a20fe wifi: mac80211_hwsim: Fix possible NULL dereference
  • 22f675f wifi: ath11k: add support default regdb while searching board-2.bin for WCN6855
  • 3534c7b devlink: make health report on unregistered instance warn just once
  • 7c4f5ab bpf: Silence a warning in btf_type_id_size()
  • 79e4371 wifi: rtw88: sdio: Check the HISR RX_REQUEST bit in rtw_sdio_rx_isr()
  • 0a844d8 bpf: tcp: Avoid taking fast sock lock in iterator
  • 926a175 bpf: drop unnecessary user-triggerable WARN_ONCE in verifierl log
  • 9acda85 spi: cadence-quadspi: Add compatible for AMD Pensando Elba SoC
  • 6e5e83b bpf: Address KCSAN report on bpf_lru_list
  • c7f54ef bpf: Print a warning only if writing to unprivileged_bpf_disabled.
  • 32ca096 wifi: ath11k: fix registration of 6Ghz-only phy without the full channel range
  • 34eb902 sched/fair: Don't balance task to its current running CPU
  • 047bbb3 tools/nolibc: ensure stack protector guard is never zero
  • c57c278 rcu: Mark additional concurrent load from ->cpu_no_qs.b.exp
  • ea9b81c rcu-tasks: Avoid pr_info() with spin lock in cblist_init_generic()
  • 0c5b5d3 ACPI: video: Add backlight=native DMI quirk for Dell Studio 1569
  • b03c7fc arm64: mm: fix VA-range sanity check
  • d3b219e arm64: set __exception_irq_entry with __irq_entry as a default
  • aeb3c9a ACPI: resource: Remove "Zen" specific match and quirks
  • 6e29d91 ACPI: video: Add backlight=native DMI quirk for Lenovo ThinkPad X131e (3371 AMD version)
  • dfde1a0 ACPI: video: Add backlight=native DMI quirk for Apple iMac11,3
  • 33a43f6 ACPI: x86: Add ACPI_QUIRK_UART1_SKIP for Lenovo Yoga Book yb1-x90f/l
  • c643c2f ACPI: button: Add lid disable DMI quirk for Nextbook Ares 8A
  • 285941d ACPI: x86: Add skip i2c clients quirk for Nextbook Ares 8A
  • 597fb60 erofs: Fix detection of atomic context
  • 951b87d btrfs: abort transaction at update_ref_for_cow() when ref count is zero
  • d40be03 btrfs: don't check PageError in __extent_writepage
  • 689f5fb btrfs: add xxhash to fast checksum implementations
  • 37175e2 posix-timers: Ensure timer ID search-loop limit is valid
  • 3e97738 blk-mq: fix NULL dereference on q->elevator in blk_mq_elv_switch_none
  • 4cc664e scsi: sg: fix blktrace debugfs entries leakage
  • fbf5018 md/raid10: prevent soft lockup while flush writes
  • 5df4edc md: fix data corruption for raid456 when reshape restart while grow up
  • b0ed8ed FS: JFS: Check for read-only mounted filesystem in txBegin
  • fd2db13 FS: JFS: Fix null-ptr-deref Read in txBegin
  • 1a4d22d MIPS: dec: prom: Address -Warray-bounds warning
  • f2af019 fs: jfs: Fix UBSAN: array-index-out-of-bounds in dbAllocDmapLev
  • 8374bcb ALSA: hda/realtek: Add quirks for ROG ALLY CS35l41 audio
  • 4d50988 udf: Fix uninitialized array access for some pathnames
  • da2b6f9 ovl: check type and offset of struct vfsmount in ovl_entry
  • 1af064b HID: add quirk for 03f0:464a HP Elite Presenter Mouse
  • 6f4e543 quota: fix warning in dqgrab()
  • 50ff4ed quota: Properly disable quotas when add_dquot_ref() fails
  • 03a67ca ALSA: emu10k1: roll up loops in DSP setup code for Audigy
  • 25e634d drm/radeon: Fix integer overflow in radeon_cs_parser_init
  • 8f07cd5 ext4: correct inline offset when handling xattrs in inode body
  • 4368f59 KVM: arm64: vgic-v4: Make the doorbell request robust w.r.t preemption
  • e4649d3 KVM: arm64: Disable preemption in kvm_arch_hardware_enable()
  • a1023d9 KVM: arm64: Correctly handle page aging notifiers for unaligned memslot
  • 8843013 KVM: arm64: timers: Use CNTHCTL_EL2 when setting non-CNTKCTL_EL1 bits
  • 8985401 ASoC: codecs: wcd938x: fix soundwire initialisation race
  • 7f1c9f3 ASoC: codecs: wcd938x: fix codec initialisation race
  • 825fe83 ASoC: codecs: wcd934x: fix resource leaks on component remove
  • 31ee704 ASoC: codecs: wcd938x: fix missing mbhc init error handling
  • c3586c7 ASoC: codecs: wcd938x: fix resource leaks on component remove
  • 7dacc3c ASoC: tegra: Fix AMX byte map
  • 39f1fe5 ASoC: qdsp6: audioreach: fix topology probe deferral
  • ce4059e ASoC: codecs: wcd-mbhc-v2: fix resource leaks on component remove
  • feedc8f ASoC: cs35l45: Select REGMAP_IRQ
  • 9ecc785 ASoC: codecs: wcd938x: fix missing clsh ctrl error handling
  • 37272bc ASoC: cs42l51: fix driver to properly autoload with automatic module loading
  • b22f378 ASoC: rt5640: Fix sleep in atomic context
  • feb7df1 ASoC: tegra: Fix ADX byte map
  • 5d43985 ASoC: fsl_sai: Revert "ASoC: fsl_sai: Enable MCTL_MCLK_EN bit for master mode"
  • f75eaaf ASoC: fsl_sai: Disable bit clock with transmitter
  • a14eeae drm/amd/display: Keep PHY active for DP displays on DCN31
  • 1caa548 drm/amd/display: check TG is non-null before checking if enabled
  • 951c565 drm/amd/display: Disable MPC split by default on special asic
  • cd013a5 drm/amd/display: only accept async flips for fast updates
  • 8108a49 drm/client: Fix memory leak in drm_client_modeset_probe
  • 4b596a6 drm/client: Fix memory leak in drm_client_target_cloned
  • ef21043 drm/nouveau/i2c: fix number of aux event slots
  • 92d48ce drm/nouveau/kms/nv50-: init hpd_irq_lock for PIOR DP
  • f01f7f2 drm/nouveau/disp: PIOR DP uses GPIO for HPD, not PMGR AUX interrupts
  • f155c40 drm/amdgpu/pm: make mclk consistent for smu 13.0.7
  • d28f75c drm/amdgpu/pm: make gfxclock consistent for sienna cichlid
  • 1ac157c drm/amdgpu/vkms: relax timer deactivation by hrtimer_try_to_cancel
  • 819656c dma-buf/dma-resv: Stop leaking on krealloc() failure
  • 9d036b9 accel/qaic: Add consistent integer overflow checks
  • 57d14cb accel/qaic: tighten bounds checking in decode_message()
  • 1072bac accel/qaic: tighten bounds checking in encode_message()
  • 4ea5bb4 selftests: tc: add ConnTrack procfs kconfig
  • 93e9a67 Revert "r8169: disable ASPM during NAPI poll"
  • 210a8cf can: gs_usb: fix time stamp counter initialization
  • f3083a9 can: gs_usb: gs_can_open(): improve error handling
  • dfd0aa2 can: bcm: Fix UAF in bcm_proc_show()
  • 6f61564 can: mcp251xfd: __mcp251xfd_chip_set_mode(): increase poll timeout
  • 292f045 arm64/fpsimd: Ensure SME storage is allocated after SVE VL changes
  • b9dd213 ia64: mmap: Consider pgoff when searching for free mapping
  • c64ef6d regmap: Account for register length in SMBus I/O limits
  • 3cc626d of: Preserve "of-display" device name for compatibility
  • 9e12b9c s390/zcrypt: fix reply buffer calculations for CCA replies
  • 4a3d22e regmap: Drop initial version of maximum transfer length fixes
  • dc3f165 selftests: tc: add 'ct' action kconfig dep
  • cdcba75 accel/qaic: Fix a leak in map_user_pages()
  • 53db363 selftests: tc: set timeout to 15 minutes
  • 72efe5d btrfs: fix race between balance and cancel/pause
  • 4bef9a6 fuse: ioctl: translate ENOSYS in outarg
  • cca627a btrfs: zoned: fix memory leak after finding block group with super blocks
  • 4015005 btrfs: fix double iput() on inode after an error during orphan cleanup
  • a5880e6 btrfs: set_page_extent_mapped after read_folio in btrfs_cont_expand
  • a981a8b btrfs: raid56: always verify the P/Q contents for scrub
  • b1b3f50 fuse: Apply flags2 only when userspace set the FUSE_INIT_EXT
  • c5f5596 fuse: add feature flag for expire-only
  • 371b350 fuse: revalidate: don't invalidate if interrupted
  • 62dd82b btrfs: fix warning when putting transaction with qgroups enabled after abort
  • a21a43e btrfs: fix iput() on error pointer after error during orphan cleanup
  • c3e395f perf probe: Read DWARF files from the correct CU
  • 6869b2f perf probe: Add test for regression introduced by switch to die_get_decl_file()
  • ffb4aa1 prctl: move PR_GET_AUXV out of PR_MCE_KILL
  • e091bb5 keys: Fix linking a duplicate key to a keyring's assoc_array
  • f947a6f selftests/mm: mkdirty: fix incorrect position of #endif
  • b724e83 maple_tree: fix node allocation testing on 32 bit
  • 74da0d9 mm/mlock: fix vma iterator conversion of apply_vma_lock_flags()
  • 01cba7f maple_tree: set the node limit when creating a new root node
  • 33e7657 ALSA: hda/realtek: Enable Mute LED on HP Laptop 15s-eq2xxx
  • 194690a ALSA: hda/realtek: Add quirk for Clevo NS70AU
  • b699e3c ALSA: hda/realtek - remove 3k pull low procedure
  • 450d931 io_uring: Fix io_uring mmap() by using architecture-provided get_unmapped_area()
  • a3f59cb io_uring: treat -EAGAIN for REQ_F_NOWAIT as final for io-wq
  • 79562f6 Linux 6.4.6
  • 9b8bb5c x86/cpu/amd: Add a Zenbleed fix
  • fee9e86 x86/cpu/amd: Move the errata checking functionality up
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