vkGetDeviceFaultInfoEXT(3)

# vkGetDeviceFaultInfoEXT(3) Manual Page

## Name

vkGetDeviceFaultInfoEXT - Reports fault information for the specified device

## C Specification

To retrieve diagnostic information about faults that may have caused device loss, call:

    // Provided by VK_EXT_device_fault
    VkResult vkGetDeviceFaultInfoEXT(
        VkDevice                                    device,
        VkDeviceFaultCountsEXT*                     pFaultCounts,
        VkDeviceFaultInfoEXT*                       pFaultInfo);

## Parameters

- `device` is the logical device from which to query the diagnostic fault information.

- `pFaultCounts` is a pointer to a VkDeviceFaultCountsEXT structure in which counts for structures describing additional fault information are returned.

- `pFaultInfo` is `NULL` or a pointer to a VkDeviceFaultInfoEXT structure in which fault information is returned.

## Description

If `pFaultInfo` is `NULL`, then the counts of corresponding additional fault information structures available are returned in the `addressInfoCount` and `vendorInfoCount` members of `pFaultCounts`. Additionally, the size of any vendor-specific binary crash dump is returned in the `vendorBinarySize` member of `pFaultCounts`.

If `pFaultInfo` is not `NULL`, `pFaultCounts` must point to a VkDeviceFaultCountsEXT structure with each structure count or size member (`addressInfoCount`, `vendorInfoCount`, `vendorBinarySize`) set by the application to the number of elements in the corresponding output array member of `pFaultInfo` (`pAddressInfos` and `pVendorInfos`), or to the size of the output buffer in bytes (`pVendorBinaryData`). On return, each structure count member is overwritten with the number of structures actually written to the corresponding output array member of `pFaultInfo`. Similarly, `vendorBinarySize` is overwritten with the number of bytes actually written to the `pVendorBinaryData` member of `pFaultInfo`.

If the vendor-specific crash dumps feature is not enabled, then implementations must set `pFaultCounts`->vendorBinarySize to zero and must not modify `pFaultInfo`->pVendorBinaryData.

If any `pFaultCounts` structure count member is less than the number of corresponding fault properties available, at most structure count (`addressInfoCount`, `vendorInfoCount`) elements will be written to the associated `pFaultInfo` output array. Similarly, if `vendorBinarySize` is less than the size in bytes of the available crash dump data, at most `vendorBinarySize` elements will be written to `pVendorBinaryData`.

If `pFaultInfo` is `NULL`, then subsequent calls to vkGetDeviceFaultInfoEXT for the same `device` must return identical values in the `addressInfoCount`, `vendorInfoCount` and `vendorBinarySize` members of `pFaultCounts`.

If `pFaultInfo` is not `NULL`, then subsequent calls to vkGetDeviceFaultInfoEXT for the same `device` must return identical values in the output members of `pFaultInfo` (`pAddressInfos`, `pVendorInfos`, `pVendorBinaryData`), up to the limits described by the structure count and buffer size members of `pFaultCounts` (`addressInfoCount`, `vendorInfoCount`, `vendorBinarySize`). If the sizes of the output members of `pFaultInfo` increase for a subsequent call to vkGetDeviceFaultInfoEXT, then supplementary information may be returned in the additional available space.

If any `pFaultCounts` structure count member is smaller than the number of corresponding fault properties available, or if `pFaultCounts`->vendorBinarySize is smaller than the size in bytes of the generated binary crash dump data, VK_INCOMPLETE will be returned instead of VK_SUCCESS, to indicate that not all the available properties were returned.

If `pFaultCounts`->vendorBinarySize is less than what is necessary to store the binary crash dump header, nothing will be written to `pFaultInfo`->pVendorBinaryData and zero will be written to `pFaultCounts`->vendorBinarySize.

Valid Usage

- VUID-vkGetDeviceFaultInfoEXT-device-07336
  `device` must be in the lost state

- VUID-vkGetDeviceFaultInfoEXT-pFaultCounts-07337
  If the value referenced by `pFaultCounts->addressInfoCount` is not `0`, and `pFaultInfo->pAddressInfos` is not `NULL`, `pFaultInfo->pAddressInfos` must be a valid pointer to an array of `pFaultCounts->addressInfoCount` VkDeviceFaultAddressInfoEXT structures

- VUID-vkGetDeviceFaultInfoEXT-pFaultCounts-07338
  If the value referenced by `pFaultCounts->vendorInfoCount` is not `0`, and `pFaultInfo->pVendorInfos` is not `NULL`, `pFaultInfo->pVendorInfos` must be a valid pointer to an array of `pFaultCounts->vendorInfoCount` VkDeviceFaultVendorInfoEXT structures

- VUID-vkGetDeviceFaultInfoEXT-pFaultCounts-07339
  If the value referenced by `pFaultCounts->vendorBinarySize` is not `0`, and `pFaultInfo->pVendorBinaryData` is not `NULL`, `pFaultInfo->pVendorBinaryData` must be a valid pointer to an array of `pFaultCounts->vendorBinarySize` bytes

Valid Usage (Implicit)

- VUID-vkGetDeviceFaultInfoEXT-device-parameter
  `device` must be a valid VkDevice handle

- VUID-vkGetDeviceFaultInfoEXT-pFaultCounts-parameter
  `pFaultCounts` must be a valid pointer to a VkDeviceFaultCountsEXT structure

- VUID-vkGetDeviceFaultInfoEXT-pFaultInfo-parameter
  If `pFaultInfo` is not `NULL`, `pFaultInfo` must be a valid pointer to a VkDeviceFaultInfoEXT structure

Return Codes

On success, this command returns

  - VK_INCOMPLETE

  - VK_SUCCESS

On failure, this command returns

  - VK_ERROR_OUT_OF_HOST_MEMORY

  - VK_ERROR_UNKNOWN

  - VK_ERROR_VALIDATION_FAILED

## See Also

VK_EXT_device_fault, VkDevice, VkDeviceFaultCountsEXT, VkDeviceFaultInfoEXT

## 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

Copyright 2014-2026 The Khronos Group Inc.

SPDX-License-Identifier: CC-BY-4.0