C Specification

The VkDescriptorSetAllocateInfo structure is defined as:

// Provided by VK_VERSION_1_0
typedef struct VkDescriptorSetAllocateInfo {
    VkStructureType                 sType;
    const void*                     pNext;
    VkDescriptorPool                descriptorPool;
    uint32_t                        descriptorSetCount;
    const VkDescriptorSetLayout*    pSetLayouts;
} VkDescriptorSetAllocateInfo;

Members

  • sType is a VkStructureType value identifying this structure.

  • pNext is NULL or a pointer to a structure extending this structure.

  • descriptorPool is the pool which the sets will be allocated from.

  • descriptorSetCount determines the number of descriptor sets to be allocated from the pool.

  • pSetLayouts is a pointer to an array of descriptor set layouts, with each member specifying how the corresponding descriptor set is allocated.

Description

Valid Usage

  • VUID-VkDescriptorSetAllocateInfo-apiVersion-07895
    If the VK_KHR_maintenance1 extension is not enabled and VkPhysicalDeviceProperties::apiVersion is less than Vulkan 1.1, descriptorSetCount must not be greater than the number of sets that are currently available for allocation in descriptorPool

  • VUID-VkDescriptorSetAllocateInfo-apiVersion-07896
    If the VK_KHR_maintenance1 extension is not enabled and VkPhysicalDeviceProperties::apiVersion is less than Vulkan 1.1, descriptorPool must have enough free descriptor capacity remaining to allocate the descriptor sets of the specified layouts

  • VUID-VkDescriptorSetAllocateInfo-pSetLayouts-00308
    Each element of pSetLayouts must not have been created with VK_DESCRIPTOR_SET_LAYOUT_CREATE_PUSH_DESCRIPTOR_BIT_KHR set

  • VUID-VkDescriptorSetAllocateInfo-pSetLayouts-03044
    If any element of pSetLayouts was created with the VK_DESCRIPTOR_SET_LAYOUT_CREATE_UPDATE_AFTER_BIND_POOL_BIT bit set, descriptorPool must have been created with the VK_DESCRIPTOR_POOL_CREATE_UPDATE_AFTER_BIND_BIT flag set

  • VUID-VkDescriptorSetAllocateInfo-pSetLayouts-09380
    If pSetLayouts[i] was created with an element of pBindingFlags that includes VK_DESCRIPTOR_BINDING_VARIABLE_DESCRIPTOR_COUNT_BIT, and VkDescriptorSetVariableDescriptorCountAllocateInfo is included in the pNext chain, and VkDescriptorSetVariableDescriptorCountAllocateInfo::descriptorSetCount is not zero, then VkDescriptorSetVariableDescriptorCountAllocateInfo::pDescriptorCounts[i] must be less than or equal to VkDescriptorSetLayoutBinding::descriptorCount for the corresponding binding used to create pSetLayouts[i]

  • VUID-VkDescriptorSetAllocateInfo-pSetLayouts-04610
    If any element of pSetLayouts was created with the VK_DESCRIPTOR_SET_LAYOUT_CREATE_HOST_ONLY_POOL_BIT_EXT bit set, descriptorPool must have been created with the VK_DESCRIPTOR_POOL_CREATE_HOST_ONLY_BIT_EXT flag set

  • VUID-VkDescriptorSetAllocateInfo-pSetLayouts-08009
    Each element of pSetLayouts must not have been created with the VK_DESCRIPTOR_SET_LAYOUT_CREATE_DESCRIPTOR_BUFFER_BIT_EXT bit set

Valid Usage (Implicit)

  • VUID-VkDescriptorSetAllocateInfo-sType-sType
    sType must be VK_STRUCTURE_TYPE_DESCRIPTOR_SET_ALLOCATE_INFO

  • VUID-VkDescriptorSetAllocateInfo-pNext-pNext
    pNext must be NULL or a pointer to a valid instance of VkDescriptorSetVariableDescriptorCountAllocateInfo

  • VUID-VkDescriptorSetAllocateInfo-sType-unique
    The sType value of each struct in the pNext chain must be unique

  • VUID-VkDescriptorSetAllocateInfo-descriptorPool-parameter
    descriptorPool must be a valid VkDescriptorPool handle

  • VUID-VkDescriptorSetAllocateInfo-pSetLayouts-parameter
    pSetLayouts must be a valid pointer to an array of descriptorSetCount valid VkDescriptorSetLayout handles

  • VUID-VkDescriptorSetAllocateInfo-descriptorSetCount-arraylength
    descriptorSetCount must be greater than 0

  • VUID-VkDescriptorSetAllocateInfo-commonparent
    Both of descriptorPool, and the elements of pSetLayouts must have been created, allocated, or retrieved from the same VkDevice

See Also

VK_VERSION_1_0, VkDescriptorPool, VkDescriptorSetLayout, VkStructureType, vkAllocateDescriptorSets

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

Copyright 2014-2023 The Khronos Group Inc.

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