OCI - Kernel fails to boot with error: "core perfctr but no constraints; unknown hardware!"

Applies To:

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure

Linux OS 

Symptoms

Console history shows below error :

[    0.054021] Performance Events:
[    0.054490] core perfctr but no constraints; unknown hardware!

[    0.055004] no PMU driver, software events only.

[    0.055652] ------------[ cut here ]------------

[    0.056000] kernel BUG at arch/x86/kernel/alternative.c:708!

[    0.056000] invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] SMP

[    0.056000] Modules linked in:

[    0.056000] CPU: 0 PID: 1 Comm: swapper/0 Not tainted 4.1.12-124.59.1.2.el7uek.x86_64 #2

[    0.056000] Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.6.6 08/22/2023

[    0.056000] task: ffff88042d698000 ti: ffff88042d6a0000 task.ti: ffff88042d6a0000

[    0.056000] RIP: 0010:[]  [] text_poke+0x228/0x250

[    0.056000] RSP: 0018:ffff88042d6a3c98  EFLAGS: 00010897

[    0.056000] RAX: 00000000000000cc RBX: 0000000000040800 RCX: 00000000fffa3203

[    0.056000] RDX: 00000000178bfbff RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: ffffffffff4f9000

[    0.056000] RBP: ffff88042d6a3cd8 R08: ffffffff8107a4d0 R09: 0000000000000000