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

New Enums

New Bitmasks

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