VK_NV_device_diagnostics_config

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Last Modified Date

2022-04-06

Contributors

• Kedarnath Thangudu, NVIDIA
• Thomas Klein, NVIDIA

Description

Applications using Nvidia Nsight^™ Aftermath SDK for Vulkan to integrate device crash dumps into their error reporting mechanisms, may use this extension to configure options related to device crash dump creation.

Version 2 of this extension adds VK_DEVICE_DIAGNOSTICS_CONFIG_ENABLE_SHADER_ERROR_REPORTING_BIT_NV which when set enables enhanced reporting of shader execution errors.

New Structures

• Extending VkDeviceCreateInfo:
  • VkDeviceDiagnosticsConfigCreateInfoNV
• Extending VkPhysicalDeviceFeatures2, VkDeviceCreateInfo:
  • VkPhysicalDeviceDiagnosticsConfigFeaturesNV

New Enums

• VkDeviceDiagnosticsConfigFlagBitsNV

New Bitmasks

• VkDeviceDiagnosticsConfigFlagsNV

New Enum Constants

• VK_NV_DEVICE_DIAGNOSTICS_CONFIG_EXTENSION_NAME
• VK_NV_DEVICE_DIAGNOSTICS_CONFIG_SPEC_VERSION
• Extending VkStructureType:
  • VK_STRUCTURE_TYPE_DEVICE_DIAGNOSTICS_CONFIG_CREATE_INFO_NV
  • VK_STRUCTURE_TYPE_PHYSICAL_DEVICE_DIAGNOSTICS_CONFIG_FEATURES_NV

Version History

• Revision 1, 2019-11-21 (Kedarnath Thangudu)
  • Internal revisions
• Revision 2, 2022-04-06 (Kedarnath Thangudu)
  • Added a config bit VK_DEVICE_DIAGNOSTICS_CONFIG_ENABLE_SHADER_ERROR_REPORTING_BIT_NV