C Specification

To copy data from a memory region to an image object by specifying copy parameters in memory, call:

// Provided by VK_KHR_copy_memory_indirect
void vkCmdCopyMemoryToImageIndirectKHR(
    VkCommandBuffer                             commandBuffer,
    const VkCopyMemoryToImageIndirectInfoKHR*   pCopyMemoryToImageIndirectInfo);

Parameters

Description

Each region specified in the memory referenced by pCopyMemoryToImageIndirectInfo->copyAddressRange is copied from the source region to an image region in the destination image. If the destination image is of type VK_IMAGE_TYPE_3D, the starting slice and number of slices to copy are specified in pImageSubresources->baseArrayLayer and pImageSubresources->layerCount respectively as imageOffset and imageExtent from VkCopyMemoryToImageIndirectCommandKHR are only available at device execution time. The results are undefined if any of the source and destination regions overlap in memory.

Valid Usage
  • VUID-vkCmdCopyMemoryToImageIndirectKHR-indirectMemoryToImageCopy-10947
    The indirectMemoryToImageCopy feature must be enabled

  • VUID-vkCmdCopyMemoryToImageIndirectKHR-commandBuffer-10948
    The VkCommandPool that commandBuffer was allocated from must support at least one of the queue types specified in VkPhysicalDeviceCopyMemoryIndirectPropertiesKHR::supportedQueues

  • VUID-vkCmdCopyMemoryToImageIndirectKHR-commandBuffer-10949
    commandBuffer must not be a protected command buffer

Valid Usage (Implicit)
  • VUID-vkCmdCopyMemoryToImageIndirectKHR-commandBuffer-parameter
    commandBuffer must be a valid VkCommandBuffer handle

  • VUID-vkCmdCopyMemoryToImageIndirectKHR-pCopyMemoryToImageIndirectInfo-parameter
    pCopyMemoryToImageIndirectInfo must be a valid pointer to a valid VkCopyMemoryToImageIndirectInfoKHR structure

  • VUID-vkCmdCopyMemoryToImageIndirectKHR-commandBuffer-recording
    commandBuffer must be in the recording state

  • VUID-vkCmdCopyMemoryToImageIndirectKHR-commandBuffer-cmdpool
    The VkCommandPool that commandBuffer was allocated from must support VK_QUEUE_COMPUTE_BIT, VK_QUEUE_GRAPHICS_BIT, or VK_QUEUE_TRANSFER_BIT operations

  • VUID-vkCmdCopyMemoryToImageIndirectKHR-renderpass
    This command must only be called outside of a render pass instance

  • VUID-vkCmdCopyMemoryToImageIndirectKHR-videocoding
    This command must only be called outside of a video coding scope

Host Synchronization
  • Host access to commandBuffer must be externally synchronized

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

Command Properties
Command Buffer Levels Render Pass Scope Video Coding Scope Supported Queue Types Command Type

Primary
Secondary

Outside

Outside

VK_QUEUE_COMPUTE_BIT
VK_QUEUE_GRAPHICS_BIT
VK_QUEUE_TRANSFER_BIT

Action

Conditional Rendering

vkCmdCopyMemoryToImageIndirectKHR is not affected by conditional rendering

See Also

Document Notes

For more information, see the Vulkan Specification.

This page is extracted from the Vulkan Specification. Fixes and changes should be made to the Specification, not directly.

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