C Specification

To create a buffer view, call:

// Provided by VK_VERSION_1_0
VkResult vkCreateBufferView(
    VkDevice                                    device,
    const VkBufferViewCreateInfo*               pCreateInfo,
    const VkAllocationCallbacks*                pAllocator,
    VkBufferView*                               pView);

Parameters

  • device is the logical device that creates the buffer view.

  • pCreateInfo is a pointer to a VkBufferViewCreateInfo structure containing parameters to be used to create the buffer view.

  • pAllocator controls host memory allocation as described in the Memory Allocation chapter.

  • pView is a pointer to a VkBufferView handle in which the resulting buffer view object is returned.

Description

If VkPhysicalDeviceVulkanSC10Properties::deviceNoDynamicHostAllocations is VK_TRUE, vkCreateBufferView must not return VK_ERROR_OUT_OF_HOST_MEMORY.

Valid Usage

  • VUID-vkCreateBufferView-device-09665
    device must support at least one queue family with one of the VK_QUEUE_COMPUTE_BIT or VK_QUEUE_GRAPHICS_BIT capabilities

  • VUID-vkCreateBufferView-device-05068
    The number of buffer views currently allocated from device plus 1 must be less than or equal to the total number of buffer views requested via VkDeviceObjectReservationCreateInfo::bufferViewRequestCount specified when device was created

Valid Usage (Implicit)

  • VUID-vkCreateBufferView-device-parameter
    device must be a valid VkDevice handle

  • VUID-vkCreateBufferView-pCreateInfo-parameter
    pCreateInfo must be a valid pointer to a valid VkBufferViewCreateInfo structure

  • VUID-vkCreateBufferView-pAllocator-null
    pAllocator must be NULL

  • VUID-vkCreateBufferView-pView-parameter
    pView must be a valid pointer to a VkBufferView handle

  • VUID-vkCreateBufferView-device-queuecount
    The device must have been created with at least 1 queue

Return Codes
On success, this command returns

  • VK_SUCCESS

On failure, this command returns

  • VK_ERROR_OUT_OF_HOST_MEMORY

  • VK_ERROR_OUT_OF_DEVICE_MEMORY

See Also

VK_VERSION_1_0, VkAllocationCallbacks, VkBufferView, VkBufferViewCreateInfo, VkDevice

Document Notes

For more information, see the Vulkan Specification

This page is extracted from the Vulkan Specification. Fixes and changes should be made to the Specification, not directly.

Copyright

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