Registered Extension Number

467

Revision

1

Ratification Status

Not ratified

Extension and Version Dependencies

VK_KHR_get_physical_device_properties2
or
Version 1.1

Contact

Extension Proposal

VK_EXT_pipeline_protected_access

Other Extension Metadata

Last Modified Date

2022-07-28

Contributors

  • Shahbaz Youssefi, Google

  • Jörg Wagner, Arm

  • Ralph Potter, Samsung

  • Daniel Koch, NVIDIA

Description

This extension allows protected memory access to be specified per pipeline as opposed to per device. Through the usage of this extension, any performance penalty paid due to access to protected memory will be limited to the specific pipelines that make such accesses.

New Structures

New Enum Constants

  • VK_EXT_PIPELINE_PROTECTED_ACCESS_EXTENSION_NAME

  • VK_EXT_PIPELINE_PROTECTED_ACCESS_SPEC_VERSION

  • Extending VkPipelineCreateFlagBits:

    • VK_PIPELINE_CREATE_NO_PROTECTED_ACCESS_BIT_EXT

    • VK_PIPELINE_CREATE_PROTECTED_ACCESS_ONLY_BIT_EXT

  • Extending VkStructureType:

    • VK_STRUCTURE_TYPE_PHYSICAL_DEVICE_PIPELINE_PROTECTED_ACCESS_FEATURES_EXT

Version History

  • Revision 1, 2022-07-28 (Shahbaz Youssefi)

    • Internal revisions

See Also

No cross-references are available

Document Notes

For more information, see the Vulkan Specification

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Copyright

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