Thursday, 13 August 2026

Linux-7.1-ck2

Numerous fixes to bring functionality in line with mainline 7.1.
Micro-optimisations.
Set -ck defaults in kernel config.

Release: 

 https://github.com/ckolivas/linux/releases/tag/v7.1-ck2 

Tag: 

 https://github.com/ckolivas/linux/tree/v7.1-ck2 

お楽しみください

-ck 

Wednesday, 12 August 2026

Linux-7.1-ck1, MuQSS version 0.3 for linux-7.1

It's been 10 long years since the last -ck patchset. I wasn't planning on ever updating it because of the amount of time involved to resync with each new kernel version. However, I'd missed its improvements, and Claude AI has made it a fraction of the workload it used to be. So, here is the first updated patchset which is mostly just a resync of the old patches for the latest linux kernel.

 https://github.com/ckolivas/linux/tree/v7.1-ck1 

The only new changes are MuQSS now uses P/E core aware idle balancing.

Only lightly tested and may not build on other configs, so use usual precautions. 

お楽しみください

-ck 

  •  Add -ck1 version.
  •  Make nohz_full not be picked up as a default config option and add recommendation to help.
  •  Reinstate default Hz of 100 in combination with MuQSS and -ck patches.
  •  Make hrtimer granularity and minimum hrtimeout configurable in sysctl. Set default granularity to 100us and min timeout to 500us.
  •  Don't use hrtimer overlay when pm_freezing since some drivers still don't correctly use freezable timeouts.
  •  Replace all calls to schedule_timeout_uninterruptible to use schedule_msec_hrtimeout_uninterruptible.
  •  Replace all calls to schedule_timeout_interruptible to use schedule_msec_hrtimeout_interruptible.
  •  Convert msleep to use hrtimers when active.
  •  Convert all low value schedule_timeouts to their hrtimeout equivalents.
  •  Create highres timeout variants of schedule_timeout functions.
  •  Make preemptible kernel default.
  •  Make threaded IRQs optionally the default which can be disabled.
  •  MultiQueue Skiplist Scheduler v0.300

Friday, 10 July 2026

Lrzip version 0.7.0

https://github.com/ckolivas/lrzip/tree/v0.7.0

  • New file format mostly backward compatible except for streamed large STDIO compressed files and encrypted files.
  • Update embedded libzpaq from 5.00 to 7.15 - faster & better compression.
  • Update embedded LZMA SDK from ~4.63/9.x to 26.02 - faster & better compression.
  • Default -e encryption is AES-256-GCM + PBKDF2-HMAC-SHA512 (magic[22]=3).
  • Add --legacy-encrypt for 0.6-compatible AES-128-CBC (magic[22]=1).
  • More robust encryption protection against malicious files, but much slower.
  • Compressing via STDIO no longer writes temporary files, using the new streaming file format instead.
  • Updated lrztar to accept most lrzip options.
  • Many optimisations and cleanups.
  • 32 bit build completely deprecated and removed.

Friday, 13 February 2026

Lrzip version 0.660

I finally found the time to give lrzip a long overdue update which I hadn't touched in 4 years. Apologies for my extended absence from this project.

 Get it from here:

 https://github.com/ckolivas/lrzip/tree/v0.660

 This is a maintenance bugfix release for the accumulated issues developed in that time. Many of the fixes are security fixes for potentially maliciously crafted archives, thus it is strongly recommended existing users of lrzip update.

 The brief WHATS-NEW notes summarise the notable changes:

  •  Address multiple potential security issues with crafted or corrupt archives.
  • Accept password usage as a parameter on decompressing encrypted files.
  • Fix CPU detection not respecting affinity.
  • Fix segfault with zpaq and incompressible blocks.
  • Fix inappropriate warnings being displayed.
  • Minor cleanups and extra code sanity checks.