scripts/gdb: lx-dmesg: use explicit encoding=utf8 errors=replace
authorLeonard Crestez <leonard.crestez@nxp.com>
Wed, 12 Jul 2017 21:34:19 +0000 (14:34 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Wed, 12 Jul 2017 23:26:01 +0000 (16:26 -0700)
commit46d10a094353c05144f3b0530516bdac3ce7c435
tree5bb6bf3681ce567b1062da6211bb3fbdb15d23ca
parentc454756f47277b651ad41a5a163499294529e35d
scripts/gdb: lx-dmesg: use explicit encoding=utf8 errors=replace

Use errors=replace because it is never desirable for lx-dmesg to fail on
string decoding errors, not even if the log buffer is corrupt and we
show incorrect info.

The kernel will sometimes print utf8, for example the copyright symbol
from jffs2.  In order to make this work specify 'utf8' everywhere
because python2 otherwise defaults to 'ascii'.

In theory the second errors='replace' is not be required because
everything that can be decoded as utf8 should also be encodable back to
utf8.  But it's better to be extra safe here.  It's worth noting that
this is definitely not true for encoding='ascii', unknown characters are
replaced with U+FFFD REPLACEMENT CHARACTER and they fail to encode back
to ascii.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/acee067f3345954ed41efb77b80eebdc038619c6.1498481469.git.leonard.crestez@nxp.com
Signed-off-by: Leonard Crestez <leonard.crestez@nxp.com>
Acked-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
Cc: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
Cc: Kieran Bingham <kieran@ksquared.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
scripts/gdb/linux/dmesg.py