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perf python scripting: Fix printable strings in python3 scripts

Hagen reported broken strings in python3 tracepoint scripts:

make PYTHON=python3
perf record -e sched:sched_switch -a -- sleep 5
perf script --gen-script py
perf script -s ./perf-script.py

[..]
sched__sched_switch 7 563231.759525792 0 swapper prev_comm=bytearray(b'swapper/7\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00'), prev_pid=0, prev_prio=120, prev_state=, next_comm=bytearray(b'mutex-thread-co\x00'),

The problem is in the is_printable_array function that does not take the
zero byte into account and claim such string as not printable, so the
code will create byte array instead of string.

Committer testing:

After this fix:

sched__sched_switch 3 484522.497072626 1158680 kworker/3:0-eve prev_comm=kworker/3:0, prev_pid=1158680, prev_prio=120, prev_state=I, next_comm=swapper/3, next_pid=0, next_prio=120
Sample: {addr=0, cpu=3, datasrc=84410401, datasrc_decode=N/A|SNP N/A|TLB N/A|LCK N/A, ip=18446744071841817196, period=1, phys_addr=0, pid=1158680, tid=1158680, time=484522497072626, transaction=0, values=[(0, 0)], weight=0}

sched__sched_switch 4 484522.497085610 1225814 perf prev_comm=perf, prev_pid=1225814, prev_prio=120, prev_state=, next_comm=migration/4, next_pid=30, next_prio=0
Sample: {addr=0, cpu=4, datasrc=84410401, datasrc_decode=N/A|SNP N/A|TLB N/A|LCK N/A, ip=18446744071841817196, period=1, phys_addr=0, pid=1225814, tid=1225814, time=484522497085610, transaction=0, values=[(0, 0)], weight=0}

Fixes: 249de6e07458 ("perf script python: Fix string vs byte array resolving")
Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Hagen Paul Pfeifer <hagen@jauu.net>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Michael Petlan <mpetlan@redhat.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: http://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20200928201135.3633850-1-jolsa@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>

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Jiri Olsa and committed by
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
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tools/perf/util/print_binary.c
··· 50 50 51 51 len--; 52 52 53 - for (i = 0; i < len; i++) { 53 + for (i = 0; i < len && p[i]; i++) { 54 54 if (!isprint(p[i]) && !isspace(p[i])) 55 55 return 0; 56 56 }