[PATCH v2 0/2] perf tools: port UI from GTK2 to GTK4

From: Matt Turner

Date: Sun Sep 06 2026 - 11:03:28 EST


GTK2 is long dead upstream and increasingly hard to keep building on
current distros. This series ports perf's GTK-based report browser to
GTK4 and fixes it up so it's actually loadable at runtime after the
port.

Patch 1 does the mechanical port (build system, widget API changes).
Patch 2 fixes a runtime issue found after the port that prevented the
browser from loading.

Signed-off-by: Matt Turner <mattst88@xxxxxxxxx>
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Changes in v2:
- Fix error dialog's nested GMainLoop hanging if the parent window
closes or a signal arrives while the dialog is open (quit from
"destroy", not just "response")
- Fix build with GTK_INFO_BAR_SUPPORT: gtk_info_bar_get_content_area()
is gone in GTK 4, use gtk_info_bar_add_child() instead
- Fix use-after-free in the progress dialog on manual close
- Fix reuse of an exhausted va_list in the vasprintf() failure path
- Link to v1: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20260906-perf-gtk2-v1-0-7564bf8523a9@xxxxxxxxx

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Matt Turner (2):
tools: port perf ui from GTK 2 to GTK 4
perf tools: make the GTK4 report browser actually loadable at runtime

tools/build/Makefile.feature | 5 +-
tools/build/feature/Makefile | 12 ++---
.../{test-gtk2-infobar.c => test-gtk4-infobar.c} | 4 +-
tools/build/feature/{test-gtk2.c => test-gtk4.c} | 4 +-
tools/perf/Documentation/perf-report.txt | 2 +-
tools/perf/Makefile | 2 +-
tools/perf/Makefile.config | 27 ++++++-----
tools/perf/Makefile.perf | 6 +--
tools/perf/builtin-annotate.c | 8 ++--
tools/perf/builtin-report.c | 8 ++--
tools/perf/scripts/install-build-deps.sh | 4 +-
tools/perf/tests/make | 4 +-
tools/perf/ui/gtk/annotate.c | 28 +++++------
tools/perf/ui/gtk/browser.c | 54 +++++++++++++++++-----
tools/perf/ui/gtk/gtk.h | 3 ++
tools/perf/ui/gtk/hists.c | 32 +++++--------
tools/perf/ui/gtk/progress.c | 39 +++++++++++-----
tools/perf/ui/gtk/setup.c | 5 +-
tools/perf/ui/gtk/util.c | 52 +++++++++++++++++++--
tools/perf/ui/setup.c | 2 +-
tools/perf/util/annotate.c | 11 +++++
tools/perf/util/annotate.h | 12 +----
22 files changed, 206 insertions(+), 118 deletions(-)
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base-commit: 9f0346dcbea363787186c94ef94dd01aaa215afa
change-id: 20260906-perf-gtk2-555ca04bb652

Best regards,
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Matt Turner <mattst88@xxxxxxxxx>