C Specification

The VkImportSemaphoreWin32HandleInfoKHR structure is defined as:

// Provided by VK_KHR_external_semaphore_win32
typedef struct VkImportSemaphoreWin32HandleInfoKHR {
    VkStructureType                          sType;
    const void*                              pNext;
    VkSemaphore                              semaphore;
    VkSemaphoreImportFlags                   flags;
    VkExternalSemaphoreHandleTypeFlagBits    handleType;
    HANDLE                                   handle;
    LPCWSTR                                  name;
} VkImportSemaphoreWin32HandleInfoKHR;

Members

  • sType is a VkStructureType value identifying this structure.

  • pNext is NULL or a pointer to a structure extending this structure.

  • semaphore is the semaphore into which the payload will be imported.

  • flags is a bitmask of VkSemaphoreImportFlagBits specifying additional parameters for the semaphore payload import operation.

  • handleType is a VkExternalSemaphoreHandleTypeFlagBits value specifying the type of handle.

  • handle is NULL or the external handle to import.

  • name is NULL or a null-terminated UTF-16 string naming the underlying synchronization primitive to import.

Description

The handle types supported by handleType are:

Table 1. Handle Types Supported by VkImportSemaphoreWin32HandleInfoKHR
Handle Type Transference Permanence Supported

VK_EXTERNAL_SEMAPHORE_HANDLE_TYPE_OPAQUE_WIN32_BIT

Reference

Temporary,Permanent

VK_EXTERNAL_SEMAPHORE_HANDLE_TYPE_OPAQUE_WIN32_KMT_BIT

Reference

Temporary,Permanent

VK_EXTERNAL_SEMAPHORE_HANDLE_TYPE_D3D12_FENCE_BIT

Reference

Temporary,Permanent
Valid Usage
Valid Usage (Implicit)
Host Synchronization

  • Host access to semaphore must be externally synchronized

See Also

VK_KHR_external_semaphore_win32, VkExternalSemaphoreHandleTypeFlagBits, VkSemaphore, VkSemaphoreImportFlags, VkStructureType, vkImportSemaphoreWin32HandleKHR

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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