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Function Prototype

vkInvalidateMappedMemoryRanges

Invalidate ranges of mapped memory objects

To invalidate ranges of non-coherent memory from the host caches, call:

VkResult vkInvalidateMappedMemoryRanges(
    VkDevice device,
    uint32_t memoryRangeCount,
    const VkMappedMemoryRange* pMemoryRanges);
  • device is the logical device that owns the memory ranges.
  • memoryRangeCount is the length of the pMemoryRanges array.
  • pMemoryRanges is a pointer to an array of VkMappedMemoryRange structures describing the memory ranges to invalidate.

vkInvalidateMappedMemoryRanges guarantees that device writes to the memory ranges described by pMemoryRanges, which have been made available to the host memory domain using the VK_ACCESS_HOST_WRITE_BIT and VK_ACCESS_HOST_READ_BIT access types, are made visible to the host. If a range of non-coherent memory is written by the host and then invalidated without first being flushed, its contents are undefined:.

The first synchronization scope includes all host operations that happened-before it, as defined by the host memory model.

This function does not synchronize with device operations directly - other host synchronization operations that depend on device operations such as vkWaitForFences must be executed beforehand. So for any non-coherent device write to be made visible to the host, there has to be a dependency chain along the following lines:

  1. Device write
  2. Device memory barrier including host reads in its second scope
  3. Signal on the device (e.g. a fence signal operation)
  4. Wait on the host (e.g. vkWaitForFences)
  5. vkInvalidateMappedMemoryRanges

The second synchronization scope includes all host operations that happen-after it, as defined by the host memory model.

The first access scope is empty.

The second access scope includes host reads to the specified memory ranges.

When a device write to a memory location is made visible to the host in this way, each whole aligned set of nonCoherentAtomSize bytes that the memory location exists in will also be made visible as if they were written by the device. For example, with a nonCoherentAtomSize of 128, if an application writes to the first byte of a memory object on the device, the first 128 bytes of the memory object will be made visible by this command. While the value of the following 127 bytes will be unchanged, this does count as an access for the purpose of synchronization, so care must be taken to avoid data races.

Mapping non-coherent memory does not implicitly invalidate that memory.

Valid Usage (Implicit)

VUID-vkInvalidateMappedMemoryRanges-device-parameter

device must be a valid VkDevice handle

VUID-vkInvalidateMappedMemoryRanges-pMemoryRanges-parameter

pMemoryRanges must be a valid pointer to an array of memoryRangeCount valid VkMappedMemoryRange structures

VUID-vkInvalidateMappedMemoryRanges-memoryRangeCount-arraylength

memoryRangeCount must be greater than 0