Function Prototype

vkCmdCopyBufferToImage

Copy data from a buffer into an image
primary / secondary
outside
transfer / graphics / compute
action

To copy data from a buffer object to an image object, call:

void vkCmdCopyBufferToImage(
    VkCommandBuffer commandBuffer,
    VkBuffer srcBuffer,
    VkImage dstImage,
    VkImageLayout dstImageLayout,
    uint32_t regionCount,
    const VkBufferImageCopy* pRegions);
  • commandBuffer is the command buffer into which the command will be recorded.
  • srcBuffer is the source buffer.
  • dstImage is the destination image.
  • dstImageLayout is the layout of the destination image subresources for the copy.
  • regionCount is the number of regions to copy.
  • pRegions is a pointer to an array of VkBufferImageCopy structures specifying the regions to copy.

Each source region specified by pRegions is copied from the source buffer to the destination region of the destination image according to the addressing calculations for each resource. If any of the specified regions in srcBuffer overlaps in memory with any of the specified regions in dstImage, values read from those overlapping regions are undefined:. If any region accesses a depth aspect in dstImage and the VK_EXT_depth_range_unrestricted extension is not enabled, values copied from srcBuffer outside of the range [0,1] will be written as undefined: values to the destination image.

Copy regions for the image must be aligned to a multiple of the texel block extent in each dimension, except at the edges of the image, where region extents must match the edge of the image.

Valid Usage

VUID-vkCmdCopyBufferToImage-dstImage-07966

If dstImage is non-sparse then the image or the specified disjoint plane must be bound completely and contiguously to a single VkDeviceMemory object

VUID-vkCmdCopyBufferToImage-imageSubresource-07967

The imageSubresource.mipLevel member of each element of pRegions must be less than the mipLevels specified in VkImageCreateInfo when dstImage was created

VUID-vkCmdCopyBufferToImage-imageSubresource-07968

If imageSubresource.layerCount is not VK_REMAINING_ARRAY_LAYERS, imageSubresource.baseArrayLayer + imageSubresource.layerCount of each element of pRegionsmust be less than or equal to the arrayLayers specified in VkImageCreateInfo when dstImage was created

VUID-vkCmdCopyBufferToImage-dstImage-07969

dstImage must not have been created with flags containing VK_IMAGE_CREATE_SUBSAMPLED_BIT_EXT

VUID-vkCmdCopyBufferToImage-imageSubresource-07970

The image region specified by each element of pRegions must be contained within the specified imageSubresource of dstImage

VUID-vkCmdCopyBufferToImage-imageSubresource-07971

For each element of pRegions, imageOffset.x and (imageExtent.width + imageOffset.x) must both be greater than or equal to 0 and less than or equal to the width of the specified imageSubresource of dstImage

VUID-vkCmdCopyBufferToImage-imageSubresource-07972

For each element of pRegions, imageOffset.y and (imageExtent.height + imageOffset.y) must both be greater than or equal to 0 and less than or equal to the height of the specified imageSubresource of dstImage

VUID-vkCmdCopyBufferToImage-dstImage-07973

dstImage must have a sample count equal to VK_SAMPLE_COUNT_1_BIT

VUID-vkCmdCopyBufferToImage-commandBuffer-07737

If the queue family used to create the VkCommandPool which commandBuffer was allocated from does not support VK_QUEUE_GRAPHICS_BIT or VK_QUEUE_COMPUTE_BIT, the bufferOffset member of any element of pRegions must be a multiple of 4

VUID-vkCmdCopyBufferToImage-imageOffset-07738

The imageOffset and imageExtent members of each element of pRegions must respect the image transfer granularity requirements of commandBuffer’s command pool’s queue family, as described in VkQueueFamilyProperties

VUID-vkCmdCopyBufferToImage-commandBuffer-07739

If the queue family used to create the VkCommandPool which commandBuffer was allocated from does not support VK_QUEUE_GRAPHICS_BIT, for each element of pRegions, the aspectMask member of imageSubresource must not be VK_IMAGE_ASPECT_DEPTH_BIT or VK_IMAGE_ASPECT_STENCIL_BIT

VUID-vkCmdCopyBufferToImage-pRegions-00171

srcBuffer must be large enough to contain all buffer locations that are accessed according to Buffer and Image Addressing, for each element of pRegions

VUID-vkCmdCopyBufferToImage-pRegions-00173

The union of all source regions, and the union of all destination regions, specified by the elements of pRegions, must not overlap in memory

VUID-vkCmdCopyBufferToImage-srcBuffer-00174

srcBuffer must have been created with VK_BUFFER_USAGE_TRANSFER_SRC_BIT usage flag

VUID-vkCmdCopyBufferToImage-dstImage-01997

The format features of dstImage must contain VK_FORMAT_FEATURE_TRANSFER_DST_BIT

VUID-vkCmdCopyBufferToImage-srcBuffer-00176

If srcBuffer is non-sparse then it must be bound completely and contiguously to a single VkDeviceMemory object

VUID-vkCmdCopyBufferToImage-dstImage-00177

dstImage must have been created with VK_IMAGE_USAGE_TRANSFER_DST_BIT usage flag

VUID-vkCmdCopyBufferToImage-dstImageLayout-00180

dstImageLayout must specify the layout of the image subresources of dstImage specified in pRegions at the time this command is executed on a VkDevice

VUID-vkCmdCopyBufferToImage-dstImageLayout-01396

dstImageLayout must be VK_IMAGE_LAYOUT_SHARED_PRESENT_KHR, VK_IMAGE_LAYOUT_TRANSFER_DST_OPTIMAL, or VK_IMAGE_LAYOUT_GENERAL

VUID-vkCmdCopyBufferToImage-pRegions-07931

If VK_EXT_depth_range_unrestricted is not enabled, for each element of pRegions whose imageSubresource contains a depth aspect, the data in srcBuffer must be in the range [0,1]

VUID-vkCmdCopyBufferToImage-dstImage-07979

If dstImage is of type VK_IMAGE_TYPE_1D, then for each element of pRegions, imageOffset.y must be 0 and imageExtent.height must be 1

VUID-vkCmdCopyBufferToImage-imageOffset-09104

For each element of pRegions, imageOffset.z and (imageExtent.depth + imageOffset.z) must both be greater than or equal to 0 and less than or equal to the depth of the specified imageSubresource of dstImage

VUID-vkCmdCopyBufferToImage-dstImage-07980

If dstImage is of type VK_IMAGE_TYPE_1D or VK_IMAGE_TYPE_2D, then for each element of pRegions, imageOffset.z must be 0 and imageExtent.depth must be 1

VUID-vkCmdCopyBufferToImage-dstImage-07274

For each element of pRegions, if VkCopyCommandTransformInfoQCOM::transform is equal to VK_SURFACE_TRANSFORM_IDENTITY_BIT_KHR or VK_SURFACE_TRANSFORM_ROTATE_270_BIT_KHR, imageOffset.x must be a multiple of the texel block extent width of the VkFormat of dstImage

VUID-vkCmdCopyBufferToImage-imageOffset-10051

For each element of pRegions, if VkCopyCommandTransformInfoQCOM::transform is equal to VK_SURFACE_TRANSFORM_ROTATE_180_BIT_KHR or VK_SURFACE_TRANSFORM_ROTATE_90_BIT_KHR, and imageOffset.x does not equal the width of the subresource specified by imageSubresource, imageOffset.x must be a multiple of the texel block extent width of the VkFormat of dstImage

VUID-vkCmdCopyBufferToImage-dstImage-07275

For each element of pRegions, if VkCopyCommandTransformInfoQCOM::transform is equal to VK_SURFACE_TRANSFORM_IDENTITY_BIT_KHR or VK_SURFACE_TRANSFORM_ROTATE_90_BIT_KHR, imageOffset.y must be a multiple of the texel block extent height of the VkFormat of dstImage

VUID-vkCmdCopyBufferToImage-imageOffset-10052

For each element of pRegions, if VkCopyCommandTransformInfoQCOM::transform is equal to VK_SURFACE_TRANSFORM_ROTATE_270_BIT_KHR or VK_SURFACE_TRANSFORM_ROTATE_180_BIT_KHR, and imageOffset.y does not equal the height of the subresource specified by imageSubresource, imageOffset.y must be a multiple of the texel block extent height of the VkFormat of dstImage

VUID-vkCmdCopyBufferToImage-dstImage-07276

For each element of pRegions, imageOffset.z must be a multiple of the texel block extent depth of the VkFormat of dstImage

VUID-vkCmdCopyBufferToImage-dstImage-00207

For each element of pRegions, if VkCopyCommandTransformInfoQCOM::transform is equal to VK_SURFACE_TRANSFORM_IDENTITY_BIT_KHR, the sum of imageOffset.x and extent.width does not equal the width of the subresource specified by imageSubresource, extent.width must be a multiple of the texel block extent width of the VkFormat of dstImage

VUID-vkCmdCopyBufferToImage-imageOffset-10053

For each element of pRegions, if VkCopyCommandTransformInfoQCOM::transform is equal to VK_SURFACE_TRANSFORM_ROTATE_90_BIT_KHR, the difference of imageOffset.x and extent.height must be a multiple of the texel block extent width of the VkFormat of dstImage

VUID-vkCmdCopyBufferToImage-imageOffset-10054

For each element of pRegions, if VkCopyCommandTransformInfoQCOM::transform is equal to VK_SURFACE_TRANSFORM_ROTATE_180_BIT_KHR, the difference of imageOffset.x and extent.width must be a multiple of the texel block extent width of the VkFormat of dstImage

VUID-vkCmdCopyBufferToImage-imageOffset-10055

For each element of pRegions, if VkCopyCommandTransformInfoQCOM::transform is equal to VK_SURFACE_TRANSFORM_ROTATE_270_BIT_KHR, the sum of imageOffset.x and extent.height does not equal the width of the subresource specified by imageSubresource, extent.height must be a multiple of the texel block extent width of the VkFormat of dstImage

VUID-vkCmdCopyBufferToImage-dstImage-00208

For each element of pRegions, if VkCopyCommandTransformInfoQCOM::transform is equal to VK_SURFACE_TRANSFORM_IDENTITY_BIT_KHR, and the sum of imageOffset.y and extent.height does not equal the height of the subresource specified by imageSubresource, extent.height must be a multiple of the texel block extent height of the VkFormat of dstImage

VUID-vkCmdCopyBufferToImage-imageOffset-10056

For each element of pRegions, if VkCopyCommandTransformInfoQCOM::transform is equal to VK_SURFACE_TRANSFORM_ROTATE_90_BIT_KHR, the sum of imageOffset.y and extent.width does not equal the height of the subresource specified by imageSubresource, extent.width must be a multiple of the texel block extent height of the VkFormat of dstImage

VUID-vkCmdCopyBufferToImage-imageOffset-10057

For each element of pRegions, if VkCopyCommandTransformInfoQCOM::transform is equal to VK_SURFACE_TRANSFORM_ROTATE_180_BIT_KHR, the difference of imageOffset.y and extent.height must be a multiple of the texel block extent height of the VkFormat of dstImage

VUID-vkCmdCopyBufferToImage-imageOffset-10058

For each element of pRegions, if VkCopyCommandTransformInfoQCOM::transform is equal to VK_SURFACE_TRANSFORM_ROTATE_270_BIT_KHR, the difference of imageOffset.y and extent.width must be a multiple of the texel block extent height of the VkFormat of dstImage

VUID-vkCmdCopyBufferToImage-dstImage-00209

For each element of pRegions, if the sum of imageOffset.z and extent.depth does not equal the depth of the subresource specified by srcSubresource, extent.depth must be a multiple of the texel block extent depth of the VkFormat of dstImage

VUID-vkCmdCopyBufferToImage-imageSubresource-09105

For each element of pRegions, imageSubresource.aspectMaskmust specify aspects present in dstImage

VUID-vkCmdCopyBufferToImage-dstImage-07981

If dstImage has a multi-planar image format, then for each element of pRegions, imageSubresource.aspectMask must be a single valid multi-planar aspect mask bit

VUID-vkCmdCopyBufferToImage-dstImage-07983

If dstImage is of type VK_IMAGE_TYPE_3D, for each element of pRegions, imageSubresource.baseArrayLayer must be 0 and imageSubresource.layerCount must be 1

VUID-vkCmdCopyBufferToImage-bufferRowLength-09106

For each element of pRegions, bufferRowLength must be a multiple of the texel block extent width of the VkFormat of dstImage

VUID-vkCmdCopyBufferToImage-bufferImageHeight-09107

For each element of pRegions, bufferImageHeight must be a multiple of the texel block extent height of the VkFormat of dstImage

VUID-vkCmdCopyBufferToImage-bufferRowLength-09108

For each element of pRegions, bufferRowLength divided by the texel block extent width and then multiplied by the texel block size of dstImage must be less than or equal to 231-1

VUID-vkCmdCopyBufferToImage-dstImage-07975

If dstImage does not have either a depth/stencil format or a multi-planar format, then for each element of pRegions, bufferOffset must be a multiple of the texel block size

VUID-vkCmdCopyBufferToImage-dstImage-07976

If dstImage has a multi-planar format, then for each element of pRegions, bufferOffset must be a multiple of the element size of the compatible format for the format and the aspectMask of the imageSubresource as defined in Compatible Formats of Planes of Multi-Planar Formats

VUID-vkCmdCopyBufferToImage-dstImage-07978

If dstImage has a depth/stencil format, the bufferOffset member of any element of pRegions must be a multiple of 4

Valid Usage (Implicit)

VUID-vkCmdCopyBufferToImage-pRegions-parameter

pRegions must be a valid pointer to an array of regionCount valid VkBufferImageCopy structures

VUID-vkCmdCopyBufferToImage-commandBuffer-cmdpool

The VkCommandPool that commandBuffer was allocated from must support transfer, graphics, or compute operations

VUID-vkCmdCopyBufferToImage-renderpass

This command must only be called outside of a render pass instance

VUID-vkCmdCopyBufferToImage-videocoding

This command must only be called outside of a video coding scope

VUID-vkCmdCopyBufferToImage-regionCount-arraylength

regionCount must be greater than 0

VUID-vkCmdCopyBufferToImage-commonparent

Each of commandBuffer, dstImage, and srcBuffer must have been created, allocated, or retrieved from the same VkDevice

Host Synchronization

  • Host access to commandBuffer must be externally synchronized
  • Host access to the VkCommandPool that commandBuffer was allocated from must be externally synchronized ::