C Specification

A marker region can be closed by calling:

// Provided by VK_EXT_debug_marker
void vkCmdDebugMarkerEndEXT(
    VkCommandBuffer                             commandBuffer);

Parameters

  • commandBuffer is the command buffer into which the command is recorded.

Description

An application may open a marker region in one command buffer and close it in another, or otherwise split marker regions across multiple command buffers or multiple queue submissions. When viewed from the linear series of submissions to a single queue, the calls to vkCmdDebugMarkerBeginEXT and vkCmdDebugMarkerEndEXT must be matched and balanced.

Valid Usage

  • VUID-vkCmdDebugMarkerEndEXT-commandBuffer-01239
    There must be an outstanding vkCmdDebugMarkerBeginEXT command prior to the vkCmdDebugMarkerEndEXT on the queue that commandBuffer is submitted to

  • VUID-vkCmdDebugMarkerEndEXT-commandBuffer-01240
    If commandBuffer is a secondary command buffer, there must be an outstanding vkCmdDebugMarkerBeginEXT command recorded to commandBuffer that has not previously been ended by a call to vkCmdDebugMarkerEndEXT

  • VUID-vkCmdDebugMarkerEndEXT-None-10615
    This command must not be recorded when per-tile execution model is enabled

Valid Usage (Implicit)

  • VUID-vkCmdDebugMarkerEndEXT-commandBuffer-parameter
    commandBuffer must be a valid VkCommandBuffer handle

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

  • VUID-vkCmdDebugMarkerEndEXT-commandBuffer-cmdpool
    The VkCommandPool that commandBuffer was allocated from must support VK_QUEUE_COMPUTE_BIT, VK_QUEUE_GRAPHICS_BIT, VK_QUEUE_OPTICAL_FLOW_BIT_NV, VK_QUEUE_TRANSFER_BIT, VK_QUEUE_VIDEO_DECODE_BIT_KHR, or VK_QUEUE_VIDEO_ENCODE_BIT_KHR operations

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

Both

Both

VK_QUEUE_COMPUTE_BIT
VK_QUEUE_GRAPHICS_BIT
VK_QUEUE_OPTICAL_FLOW_BIT_NV
VK_QUEUE_TRANSFER_BIT
VK_QUEUE_VIDEO_DECODE_BIT_KHR
VK_QUEUE_VIDEO_ENCODE_BIT_KHR

Action
Conditional Rendering

vkCmdDebugMarkerEndEXT is not affected by conditional rendering

See Also

VK_EXT_debug_marker, VkCommandBuffer

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.

Copyright

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SPDX-License-Identifier: CC-BY-4.0