VK_KHR_maintenance11

Other Extension Metadata

2025-09-09

VK_KHR_maintenance11 adds a collection of minor features, none of which would warrant an entire extension of their own.

The new features are as follows:

Add D3D compatibility for mismatch between Arrayed in shaders and the arrayness of the underlying descriptor when the descriptor contains a single array layer
Clarify the pipeline depth clipping state when the pipeline is created without VK_DYNAMIC_STATE_DEPTH_CLIP_ENABLE_EXT being set and the VkPipelineRasterizationDepthClipStateCreateInfoEXT struct is not present
Add VK_SHADER_CREATE_INDEPENDENT_SETS_BIT_KHR to enable shader object functionality to mimic VK_PIPELINE_LAYOUT_CREATE_INDEPENDENT_SETS_BIT_EXT used for graphics pipeline libraries, including a new pipeline layout creation flag VK_PIPELINE_LAYOUT_CREATE_NO_TASK_SHADER_BIT_KHR to ensure pipeline layouts used with shader objects also created with VK_SHADER_CREATE_NO_TASK_SHADER_BIT_EXT to be compatible
Allow queueFamilyIndexCount of 1 in VkBufferCreateInfo, VkImageCreateInfo, VkPhysicalDeviceImageDrmFormatModifierInfoEXT, VkTensorCreateInfoARM when sharingMode is VK_SHARING_MODE_CONCURRENT.
Require minImageTransferGranularity to be (1,1,1) even on transfer-only queues and add optimalImageTransferGranularity queue family property to communicate the performance bump for copies not aligned to the optimal granularity.
When copying between a buffer and an image on a transfer-only queue, do not require bufferOffset to be a multiple of 4.

VK_KHR_MAINTENANCE_11_EXTENSION_NAME
VK_KHR_MAINTENANCE_11_SPEC_VERSION
Extending VkImageCreateFlagBits:
- VK_IMAGE_CREATE_ALIAS_SINGLE_LAYER_DESCRIPTOR_BIT_KHR
Extending VkStructureType:
- VK_STRUCTURE_TYPE_PHYSICAL_DEVICE_MAINTENANCE_11_FEATURES_KHR
- VK_STRUCTURE_TYPE_QUEUE_FAMILY_OPTIMAL_IMAGE_TRANSFER_GRANULARITY_PROPERTIES_KHR

Extending VkShaderCreateFlagBitsEXT:
- VK_SHADER_CREATE_INDEPENDENT_SETS_BIT_KHR

Extending VkPipelineLayoutCreateFlagBits:
- VK_PIPELINE_LAYOUT_CREATE_NO_TASK_SHADER_BIT_KHR

None.