Compile the kernel

Use make menuconfig and enable Enable Multi-Clock for Tiered Memory System to compile the MULTI-CLOCK kernel.

Following are the other required configurations need to be eanbled for MULTI-CLOCK:

• allow for memory hot-add
• Device memory (pmem, HMM, etc...) hotplug support
• NVDIMM (Non-Volatile Memory Device) Support --->
  • NVDIMM DAX: Raw access to persistent memory
• DAX: direct access to differentiated memory --->
  • Device DAX: direct access mapping device
  • PMEM DAX: direct access to persistent memory
  • KMEM DAX: volatile-use of persistent memory

Now, build and install the kernel using make && make modules_install && make install

Install required packages

• IPMCTL
  • Installation: https://docs.pmem.io/ipmctl-user-guide/installing-ipmctl/installing-ipmctl-packages-on-linux
• NDCTL
  • Installation: https://docs.pmem.io/ndctl-user-guide/installing-ndctl/installing-ndctl-packages-on-linux