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Leonard Crestez 46d10a0943 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>
2017-07-12 16:26:01 -07:00
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.gitignore scripts/gdb: add constants.py to .gitignore 2016-07-15 14:54:27 +09:00
Makefile scripts/gdb: rebuild constants.py on dependancy change 2016-07-15 14:54:27 +09:00
__init__.py scripts/gdb: add empty package initialization script 2015-02-28 09:57:51 -08:00
constants.py.in scripts/gdb: add lx-fdtdump command 2017-07-12 16:26:00 -07:00
cpus.py scripts/gdb: cast CPU numbers to integer 2016-05-23 17:04:14 -07:00
dmesg.py scripts/gdb: lx-dmesg: use explicit encoding=utf8 errors=replace 2017-07-12 16:26:01 -07:00
lists.py scripts/gdb: provide kernel list item generators 2016-05-23 17:04:14 -07:00
modules.py scripts/gdb: support !CONFIG_MODULES gracefully 2016-05-23 17:04:14 -07:00
proc.py scripts/gdb: add lx-fdtdump command 2017-07-12 16:26:00 -07:00
symbols.py scripts/gdb: Perform path expansion to lx-symbol's arguments 2016-07-15 14:54:27 +09:00
tasks.py scripts/gdb: add lx_thread_info_by_pid helper 2016-05-23 17:04:14 -07:00
utils.py scripts/gdb: improve types abstraction for gdb python scripts 2016-05-23 17:04:14 -07:00