Registered Extension Number

245

Revision

2

Ratification Status

Not ratified

Extension and Version Dependencies

VK_KHR_get_physical_device_properties2

SPIR-V Dependencies

Contact

Other Extension Metadata

Last Modified Date

2019-01-06

IP Status

No known IP claims.

Interactions and External Dependencies
Contributors

  • Jeff Bolz, NVIDIA

  • Neil Henning, AMD

  • Tobias Hector, AMD

  • Faith Ekstrand, Intel

  • Baldur Karlsson, Valve

Description

This extension allows the application to query a 64-bit buffer device address value for a buffer, which can be used to access the buffer memory via the PhysicalStorageBufferEXT storage class in the GL_EXT_buffer_reference GLSL extension and SPV_EXT_physical_storage_buffer SPIR-V extension.

It also allows buffer device addresses to be provided by a trace replay tool, so that it matches the address used when the trace was captured.

New Commands

New Structures

New Enum Constants

  • VK_EXT_BUFFER_DEVICE_ADDRESS_EXTENSION_NAME

  • VK_EXT_BUFFER_DEVICE_ADDRESS_SPEC_VERSION

  • Extending VkBufferCreateFlagBits:

    • VK_BUFFER_CREATE_DEVICE_ADDRESS_CAPTURE_REPLAY_BIT_EXT

  • Extending VkBufferUsageFlagBits:

    • VK_BUFFER_USAGE_SHADER_DEVICE_ADDRESS_BIT_EXT

  • Extending VkResult:

    • VK_ERROR_INVALID_DEVICE_ADDRESS_EXT

  • Extending VkStructureType:

    • VK_STRUCTURE_TYPE_BUFFER_DEVICE_ADDRESS_CREATE_INFO_EXT

    • VK_STRUCTURE_TYPE_BUFFER_DEVICE_ADDRESS_INFO_EXT

    • VK_STRUCTURE_TYPE_PHYSICAL_DEVICE_BUFFER_ADDRESS_FEATURES_EXT

    • VK_STRUCTURE_TYPE_PHYSICAL_DEVICE_BUFFER_DEVICE_ADDRESS_FEATURES_EXT

New SPIR-V Capabilities

Issues

1) Where is VK_STRUCTURE_TYPE_PHYSICAL_DEVICE_BUFFER_ADDRESS_FEATURES_EXT and VkPhysicalDeviceBufferAddressFeaturesEXT?

RESOLVED: They were renamed as VK_STRUCTURE_TYPE_PHYSICAL_DEVICE_BUFFER_DEVICE_ADDRESS_FEATURES_EXT and VkPhysicalDeviceBufferDeviceAddressFeaturesEXT accordingly for consistency. Even though, the old names can still be found in the generated header files for compatibility.

Version History

  • Revision 1, 2018-11-01 (Jeff Bolz)

    • Internal revisions

  • Revision 2, 2019-01-06 (Jon Leech)

    • Minor updates to appendix for publication

See Also

VkBufferDeviceAddressCreateInfoEXT, VkBufferDeviceAddressInfoEXT, VkPhysicalDeviceBufferAddressFeaturesEXT, VkPhysicalDeviceBufferDeviceAddressFeaturesEXT, vkGetBufferDeviceAddressEXT

Document Notes

For more information, see the Vulkan Specification

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Copyright

Copyright 2014-2023 The Khronos Group Inc.

SPDX-License-Identifier: CC-BY-4.0