VkIndirectCommandsLayoutCreateInfoEXT

The VkIndirectCommandsLayoutCreateInfoEXT structure is defined as:

typedef struct VkIndirectCommandsLayoutCreateInfoEXT {
    VkStructureType sType;
    const void* pNext;
    VkIndirectCommandsLayoutUsageFlagsEXT flags;
    VkShaderStageFlags shaderStages;
    uint32_t indirectStride;
    VkPipelineLayout pipelineLayout;
    uint32_t tokenCount;
    const VkIndirectCommandsLayoutTokenEXT* pTokens;
} VkIndirectCommandsLayoutCreateInfoEXT;

sType is a VkStructureType value identifying this structure.
pNext is NULL or a pointer to a structure extending this structure.
flags is a bitmask of VkIndirectCommandsLayoutUsageFlagBitsEXT specifying usage rules for this layout.
shaderStages is the VkShaderStageFlags that this layout supports.
indirectStride is the distance in bytes between sequences in the indirect buffer
pipelineLayout is the optional VkPipelineLayout that tokens in this layout use. If the dynamicGeneratedPipelineLayout feature is enabled, pipelineLayout can be VK_NULL_HANDLE and the layout must be specified by chaining the VkPipelineLayoutCreateInfo structure off the pNext
tokenCount is the length of the individual command sequence.
pTokens is a pointer to an array of VkIndirectCommandsLayoutTokenEXT describing each command token in detail.

The following code illustrates some of the flags:

void cmdProcessAllSequences(cmd, indirectExecutionSet, indirectCommandsLayout, indirectAddress, sequencesCount)
{
  for (s = 0; s < sequencesCount; s++)
  {
    sUsed = s;

    if (indirectCommandsLayout.flags & VK_INDIRECT_COMMANDS_LAYOUT_USAGE_UNORDERED_SEQUENCES_BIT_EXT) {
      sUsed = incoherent_implementation_dependent_permutation[ sUsed ];
    }

    cmdProcessSequence( cmd, indirectExecutionSet, indirectCommandsLayout, indirectAddress, sUsed );
  }
}

When tokens are consumed, an offset is computed based on token offset and stream stride. The resulting offset is required to be aligned. The alignment for a specific token is equal to the scalar alignment of the data type as defined in Alignment Requirements, or 4, whichever is lower.

Valid Usage

VUID-VkIndirectCommandsLayoutCreateInfoEXT-indirectStride-11090

indirectStride must be less than or equal to VkPhysicalDeviceDeviceGeneratedCommandsPropertiesEXT::maxIndirectCommandsIndirectStride

VUID-VkIndirectCommandsLayoutCreateInfoEXT-shaderStages-11091

shaderStages must only contain stages supported by [VkPhysicalDeviceDeviceGeneratedCommandsPropertiesEXT::supportedIndirectCommandsShaderStages](xref::limits-supportedIndirectCommandsShaderStages)

VUID-VkIndirectCommandsLayoutCreateInfoEXT-tokenCount-11092

tokenCount must less than or equal to VkPhysicalDeviceDeviceGeneratedCommandsPropertiesEXT::maxIndirectCommandsTokenCount

VUID-VkIndirectCommandsLayoutCreateInfoEXT-pTokens-11093

The number of tokens in the pTokens array with type equal to VK_INDIRECT_COMMANDS_TOKEN_TYPE_EXECUTION_SET_EXT must be less than or equal to 1

VUID-VkIndirectCommandsLayoutCreateInfoEXT-pTokens-11145

The number of tokens in the pTokens array with type equal to VK_INDIRECT_COMMANDS_TOKEN_TYPE_SEQUENCE_INDEX_EXT must be less than or equal to 1

VUID-VkIndirectCommandsLayoutCreateInfoEXT-pTokens-11094

The number of tokens in the pTokens array with type equal to VK_INDIRECT_COMMANDS_TOKEN_TYPE_INDEX_BUFFER_EXT must be less than or equal to 1

VUID-VkIndirectCommandsLayoutCreateInfoEXT-pTokens-11095

If the action command token in the pTokens array is not an indexed draw token, then pTokens must not contain a member with type set to VK_INDIRECT_COMMANDS_TOKEN_TYPE_INDEX_BUFFER_EXT

VUID-VkIndirectCommandsLayoutCreateInfoEXT-pTokens-11096

If the action command token in the pTokens array is not a non-mesh draw token, then pTokens must not contain a member with type set to VK_INDIRECT_COMMANDS_TOKEN_TYPE_VERTEX_BUFFER_EXT

VUID-VkIndirectCommandsLayoutCreateInfoEXT-pTokens-11097

If the pTokens array contains multiple tokens with type equal to VK_INDIRECT_COMMANDS_TOKEN_TYPE_VERTEX_BUFFER_EXT, then there must be no duplicate VkIndirectCommandsVertexBufferTokenEXT::vertexBindingUnit values

VUID-VkIndirectCommandsLayoutCreateInfoEXT-pTokens-11099

For all VK_INDIRECT_COMMANDS_TOKEN_TYPE_PUSH_CONSTANT_EXT and VK_INDIRECT_COMMANDS_TOKEN_TYPE_SEQUENCE_INDEX_EXT type tokens in pTokens, there must be no overlapping ranges between any specified push constant ranges

VUID-VkIndirectCommandsLayoutCreateInfoEXT-pTokens-11100

The action command token must be the last token in the pTokens array

VUID-VkIndirectCommandsLayoutCreateInfoEXT-pTokens-11139

If the pTokens array contains a VK_INDIRECT_COMMANDS_TOKEN_TYPE_EXECUTION_SET_EXT token, then this token must be the first token in the array

VUID-VkIndirectCommandsLayoutCreateInfoEXT-pTokens-11101

For any element of pTokens, if type is VK_INDIRECT_COMMANDS_TOKEN_TYPE_PUSH_CONSTANT_EXT or VK_INDIRECT_COMMANDS_TOKEN_TYPE_SEQUENCE_INDEX_EXT and the dynamicGeneratedPipelineLayout is not enabled, then the pipelineLayout must not be VK_NULL_HANDLE

VUID-VkIndirectCommandsLayoutCreateInfoEXT-pTokens-11102

For any element of pTokens, if type is either VK_INDIRECT_COMMANDS_TOKEN_TYPE_PUSH_CONSTANT_EXT or VK_INDIRECT_COMMANDS_TOKEN_TYPE_SEQUENCE_INDEX_EXT and pipelineLayout is VK_NULL_HANDLE, then the pNext chain must include a VkPipelineLayoutCreateInfo struct

VUID-VkIndirectCommandsLayoutCreateInfoEXT-pTokens-11103

For any element of pTokens, the offset must be greater than or equal to the offset member of the previous tokens

VUID-VkIndirectCommandsLayoutCreateInfoEXT-pTokens-11104

For any element of pTokens, if type is VK_INDIRECT_COMMANDS_TOKEN_TYPE_INDEX_BUFFER_EXT, VK_INDIRECT_COMMANDS_TOKEN_TYPE_VERTEX_BUFFER_EXT, VK_INDIRECT_COMMANDS_TOKEN_TYPE_DRAW_MESH_TASKS_EXT, VK_INDIRECT_COMMANDS_TOKEN_TYPE_DRAW_MESH_TASKS_COUNT_EXT, VK_INDIRECT_COMMANDS_TOKEN_TYPE_DRAW_MESH_TASKS_NV_EXT, VK_INDIRECT_COMMANDS_TOKEN_TYPE_DRAW_MESH_TASKS_COUNT_NV_EXT, VK_INDIRECT_COMMANDS_TOKEN_TYPE_DRAW_INDEXED_COUNT_EXT, VK_INDIRECT_COMMANDS_TOKEN_TYPE_DRAW_INDEXED_EXT, or VK_INDIRECT_COMMANDS_TOKEN_TYPE_DRAW_EXT, then shaderStagesmust contain graphics stages

VUID-VkIndirectCommandsLayoutCreateInfoEXT-pTokens-11105

For any element of pTokens, if type is VK_INDIRECT_COMMANDS_TOKEN_TYPE_DISPATCH_EXT, then shaderStages must be VK_SHADER_STAGE_COMPUTE_BIT

VUID-VkIndirectCommandsLayoutCreateInfoEXT-pTokens-11106

For any element of pTokens, if type is VK_INDIRECT_COMMANDS_TOKEN_TYPE_DRAW_MESH_TASKS_EXT or VK_INDIRECT_COMMANDS_TOKEN_TYPE_DRAW_MESH_TASKS_COUNT_EXT, then shaderStages must contain VK_SHADER_STAGE_MESH_BIT_EXT

VUID-VkIndirectCommandsLayoutCreateInfoEXT-pTokens-11107

For any element of pTokens, if type is VK_INDIRECT_COMMANDS_TOKEN_TYPE_DRAW_MESH_TASKS_NV_EXT or VK_INDIRECT_COMMANDS_TOKEN_TYPE_DRAW_MESH_TASKS_COUNT_NV_EXT, then the shaderStages must contain VK_SHADER_STAGE_MESH_BIT_NV

VUID-VkIndirectCommandsLayoutCreateInfoEXT-pTokens-11108

For any element of pTokens, if type is VK_INDIRECT_COMMANDS_TOKEN_TYPE_TRACE_RAYS2_EXT, then shaderStages must contain ray tracing stages

VUID-VkIndirectCommandsLayoutCreateInfoEXT-shaderStages-11109

If `shaderStages` contains graphics stages then the state tokens in
`pTokens` :normative{type="must"} not include

VK_INDIRECT_COMMANDS_TOKEN_TYPE_TRACE_RAYS2_EXT, VK_INDIRECT_COMMANDS_TOKEN_TYPE_DISPATCH_EXT

VUID-VkIndirectCommandsLayoutCreateInfoEXT-shaderStages-11110

If shaderStages is VK_SHADER_STAGE_COMPUTE_BIT then the state tokens in pTokens must only include VK_INDIRECT_COMMANDS_TOKEN_TYPE_DISPATCH_EXT, VK_INDIRECT_COMMANDS_TOKEN_TYPE_EXECUTION_SET_EXT, VK_INDIRECT_COMMANDS_TOKEN_TYPE_PUSH_CONSTANT_EXT, or VK_INDIRECT_COMMANDS_TOKEN_TYPE_SEQUENCE_INDEX_EXT

VUID-VkIndirectCommandsLayoutCreateInfoEXT-shaderStages-11111

If shaderStages contains ray tracing stages then the state tokens in pTokens must only include VK_INDIRECT_COMMANDS_TOKEN_TYPE_TRACE_RAYS2_EXT, VK_INDIRECT_COMMANDS_TOKEN_TYPE_EXECUTION_SET_EXT, VK_INDIRECT_COMMANDS_TOKEN_TYPE_PUSH_CONSTANT_EXT, or VK_INDIRECT_COMMANDS_TOKEN_TYPE_SEQUENCE_INDEX_EXT

VUID-VkIndirectCommandsLayoutCreateInfoEXT-shaderStages-11112

The shaderStages must only contain stages from one of the following:- graphics stages

VK_SHADER_STAGE_COMPUTE_BIT
mesh stages and VK_SHADER_STAGE_FRAGMENT_BIT
ray tracing stages ::

VUID-VkIndirectCommandsLayoutCreateInfoEXT-shaderStages-11113

If shaderStages contains VK_SHADER_STAGE_FRAGMENT_BIT, then shaderStages must also contain VK_SHADER_STAGE_VERTEX_BIT or VK_SHADER_STAGE_MESH_BIT_EXT