Bytes/string encoding (#2004)
* tools: uses 'replace' error handler by default in decode()
Tools might encouter characters from non utf-8 charset (e.g. a file
name). When this happen, it's better to replace the unexpected
character by a question mark than crash the tool when all we do is
to print the string.
* tools: fix a bytes/string issue in attach_perf_event()
diff --git a/tools/cachetop.py b/tools/cachetop.py
index 0e08af9..1013675 100755
--- a/tools/cachetop.py
+++ b/tools/cachetop.py
@@ -72,7 +72,7 @@
counts = bpf.get_table("counts")
stats = defaultdict(lambda: defaultdict(int))
for k, v in counts.items():
- stats["%d-%d-%s" % (k.pid, k.uid, k.comm.decode())][k.ip] = v.value
+ stats["%d-%d-%s" % (k.pid, k.uid, k.comm.decode('utf-8', 'replace'))][k.ip] = v.value
stats_list = []
for pid, count in sorted(stats.items(), key=lambda stat: stat[0]):