Registered Extension Number

248

Revision

6

Ratification Status

Not ratified

Extension and Version Dependencies

None

Deprecation State

  • Deprecated by VK_EXT_layer_settings extension

    • NOTE The extension VK_EXT_layer_settings is not supported for the API specification being generated

Special Use

Contact

Other Extension Metadata

Last Modified Date

2018-11-14

IP Status

No known IP claims.

Contributors

  • Karl Schultz, LunarG

  • Dave Houlton, LunarG

  • Mark Lobodzinski, LunarG

  • Camden Stocker, LunarG

  • Tony Barbour, LunarG

  • John Zulauf, LunarG

Description

This extension provides the VkValidationFeaturesEXT struct that can be included in the pNext chain of the VkInstanceCreateInfo structure passed as the pCreateInfo parameter of vkCreateInstance. The structure contains an array of VkValidationFeatureEnableEXT enum values that enable specific validation features that are disabled by default. The structure also contains an array of VkValidationFeatureDisableEXT enum values that disable specific validation layer features that are enabled by default.

Deprecation by VK_EXT_layer_settings

Functionality in this extension is subsumed into the VK_EXT_layer_settings extension.

New Structures

New Enums

New Enum Constants

  • VK_EXT_VALIDATION_FEATURES_EXTENSION_NAME

  • VK_EXT_VALIDATION_FEATURES_SPEC_VERSION

  • Extending VkStructureType:

    • VK_STRUCTURE_TYPE_VALIDATION_FEATURES_EXT

Version History

  • Revision 1, 2018-11-14 (Karl Schultz)

    • Initial revision

  • Revision 2, 2019-08-06 (Mark Lobodzinski)

    • Add Best Practices enable

  • Revision 3, 2020-03-04 (Tony Barbour)

    • Add Debug Printf enable

  • Revision 4, 2020-07-29 (John Zulauf)

    • Add Synchronization Validation enable

  • Revision 5, 2021-05-18 (Tony Barbour)

    • Add Shader Validation Cache disable

  • Revision 6, 2023-09-25 (Christophe Riccio)

    • Marked as deprecated by VK_EXT_layer_settings

See Also

VkValidationFeatureDisableEXT, VkValidationFeatureEnableEXT, VkValidationFeaturesEXT

Document Notes

For more information, see the Vulkan Specification

This page is a generated document. Fixes and changes should be made to the generator scripts, not directly.

Copyright

Copyright 2014-2023 The Khronos Group Inc.

SPDX-License-Identifier: CC-BY-4.0