Deprecation State
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Promoted to Vulkan 1.3
Contact
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Alan Baker alan-baker
Other Extension Metadata
- Last Modified Date
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2020-11-18
- IP Status
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No known IP claims.
- Contributors
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Alan Baker, Google
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Jeff Bolz, Nvidia
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Faith Ekstrand, Intel
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Description
This extension allows the use of a null constant initializer on shader Workgroup memory variables, allowing implementations to expose any special hardware or instructions they may have. Zero initialization is commonly used by applications running untrusted content (e.g. web browsers) as way of defeating memory-scraping attacks.
New Enum Constants
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VK_KHR_ZERO_INITIALIZE_WORKGROUP_MEMORY_EXTENSION_NAME -
VK_KHR_ZERO_INITIALIZE_WORKGROUP_MEMORY_SPEC_VERSION -
Extending VkStructureType:
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VK_STRUCTURE_TYPE_PHYSICAL_DEVICE_ZERO_INITIALIZE_WORKGROUP_MEMORY_FEATURES_KHR
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Promotion to Vulkan 1.3
Functionality in this extension is included in core Vulkan 1.3, with the KHR suffix omitted. The original type, enum and command names are still available as aliases of the core functionality.
Document Notes
For more information, see the Vulkan Specification
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