Writing to 0x199 (MSR_IA32_PERF_CTL) is failed in Amazon EC2 instance

Solution Unverified - Updated -

Issue

  • Kernel shows the following message at booting.

    kernel: unchecked MSR access error: WRMSR to 0x199 (tried to write 0x0000000000000800) at rIP: 0xffffffffb870dbd1 (__wrmsr_on_cpu+0x31/0x40)

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8
    • kernel-4.18.0-372.9.1.el8 or later.
  • Amazon EC2 instance

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