VkPipelineRobustnessCreateInfo(3)

# VkPipelineRobustnessCreateInfo(3) Manual Page

## Name

VkPipelineRobustnessCreateInfo - Structure controlling the robustness of a newly created pipeline shader stage

## C Specification

The `VkPipelineRobustnessCreateInfo` structure is defined as:

    // Provided by VK_VERSION_1_4
    typedef struct VkPipelineRobustnessCreateInfo {
        VkStructureType                       sType;
        const void*                           pNext;
        VkPipelineRobustnessBufferBehavior    storageBuffers;
        VkPipelineRobustnessBufferBehavior    uniformBuffers;
        VkPipelineRobustnessBufferBehavior    vertexInputs;
        VkPipelineRobustnessImageBehavior     images;
    } VkPipelineRobustnessCreateInfo;

    // Provided by VK_EXT_pipeline_robustness
    // Equivalent to VkPipelineRobustnessCreateInfo
    typedef VkPipelineRobustnessCreateInfo VkPipelineRobustnessCreateInfoEXT;

## Members

- `sType` is a VkStructureType value identifying this structure.

- `pNext` is `NULL` or a pointer to a structure extending this structure.

- `storageBuffers` sets the behavior of out of bounds accesses made to resources bound as:

  - VK_DESCRIPTOR_TYPE_STORAGE_BUFFER

  - VK_DESCRIPTOR_TYPE_STORAGE_TEXEL_BUFFER

  - VK_DESCRIPTOR_TYPE_STORAGE_BUFFER_DYNAMIC

- `uniformBuffers` describes the behavior of out of bounds accesses made to resources bound as:

  - VK_DESCRIPTOR_TYPE_UNIFORM_TEXEL_BUFFER

  - VK_DESCRIPTOR_TYPE_UNIFORM_BUFFER

  - VK_DESCRIPTOR_TYPE_UNIFORM_BUFFER_DYNAMIC

  - VK_DESCRIPTOR_TYPE_INLINE_UNIFORM_BLOCK

- `vertexInputs` describes the behavior of out of bounds accesses made to vertex input attributes

- `images` describes the behavior of out of bounds accesses made to resources bound as:

  - VK_DESCRIPTOR_TYPE_SAMPLED_IMAGE

  - VK_DESCRIPTOR_TYPE_STORAGE_IMAGE

## Description

Resources bound as VK_DESCRIPTOR_TYPE_MUTABLE_EXT will have the robustness behavior that covers its active descriptor type.

The scope of the effect of `VkPipelineRobustnessCreateInfo` depends on which structure’s `pNext` chain it is included in.

- `VkGraphicsPipelineCreateInfo`, `VkRayTracingPipelineCreateInfoKHR`, `VkComputePipelineCreateInfo`:
  The robustness behavior described by `VkPipelineRobustnessCreateInfo` applies to all accesses through this pipeline

- `VkPipelineShaderStageCreateInfo`:
  The robustness behavior described by `VkPipelineRobustnessCreateInfo` applies to all accesses emanating from the shader code of this shader stage

If `VkPipelineRobustnessCreateInfo` is specified for both a pipeline and a pipeline stage, the `VkPipelineRobustnessCreateInfo` specified for the pipeline stage will take precedence.

When `VkPipelineRobustnessCreateInfo` is specified for a pipeline, it only affects the subset of the pipeline that is specified by the create info, as opposed to subsets linked from pipeline libraries. For VkGraphicsPipelineCreateInfo, that subset is specified by VkGraphicsPipelineLibraryCreateInfoEXT::`flags`. For VkRayTracingPipelineCreateInfoKHR, that subset is specified by the specific stages in VkRayTracingPipelineCreateInfoKHR::`pStages`.

Valid Usage

- VUID-VkPipelineRobustnessCreateInfo-pipelineRobustness-06926
  If the `pipelineRobustness` feature is not enabled, `storageBuffers` must be VK_PIPELINE_ROBUSTNESS_BUFFER_BEHAVIOR_DEVICE_DEFAULT

- VUID-VkPipelineRobustnessCreateInfo-pipelineRobustness-06927
  If the `pipelineRobustness` feature is not enabled, `uniformBuffers` must be VK_PIPELINE_ROBUSTNESS_BUFFER_BEHAVIOR_DEVICE_DEFAULT

- VUID-VkPipelineRobustnessCreateInfo-pipelineRobustness-06928
  If the `pipelineRobustness` feature is not enabled, `vertexInputs` must be VK_PIPELINE_ROBUSTNESS_BUFFER_BEHAVIOR_DEVICE_DEFAULT

- VUID-VkPipelineRobustnessCreateInfo-pipelineRobustness-06929
  If the `pipelineRobustness` feature is not enabled, `images` must be VK_PIPELINE_ROBUSTNESS_IMAGE_BEHAVIOR_DEVICE_DEFAULT

- VUID-VkPipelineRobustnessCreateInfo-robustImageAccess-06930
  If the `robustImageAccess` feature is not supported, `images` must not be VK_PIPELINE_ROBUSTNESS_IMAGE_BEHAVIOR_ROBUST_IMAGE_ACCESS

- VUID-VkPipelineRobustnessCreateInfo-robustBufferAccess2-06931
  If the `robustBufferAccess2` feature is not supported, `storageBuffers` must not be VK_PIPELINE_ROBUSTNESS_BUFFER_BEHAVIOR_ROBUST_BUFFER_ACCESS_2

- VUID-VkPipelineRobustnessCreateInfo-robustBufferAccess2-06932
  If the `robustBufferAccess2` feature is not supported, `uniformBuffers` must not be VK_PIPELINE_ROBUSTNESS_BUFFER_BEHAVIOR_ROBUST_BUFFER_ACCESS_2

- VUID-VkPipelineRobustnessCreateInfo-robustBufferAccess2-06933
  If the `robustBufferAccess2` feature is not supported, `vertexInputs` must not be VK_PIPELINE_ROBUSTNESS_BUFFER_BEHAVIOR_ROBUST_BUFFER_ACCESS_2

- VUID-VkPipelineRobustnessCreateInfo-robustImageAccess2-06934
  If the `robustImageAccess2` feature is not supported, `images` must not be VK_PIPELINE_ROBUSTNESS_IMAGE_BEHAVIOR_ROBUST_IMAGE_ACCESS_2

- VUID-VkPipelineRobustnessCreateInfo-storageBuffers-10636
  If `storageBuffers` is VK_PIPELINE_ROBUSTNESS_BUFFER_BEHAVIOR_ROBUST_BUFFER_ACCESS or VK_PIPELINE_ROBUSTNESS_BUFFER_BEHAVIOR_ROBUST_BUFFER_ACCESS_2, and either the `descriptorBindingStorageBufferUpdateAfterBind` feature or the `descriptorBindingStorageTexelBufferUpdateAfterBind` feature is enabled on the device, `robustBufferAccessUpdateAfterBind` must be VK_TRUE

- VUID-VkPipelineRobustnessCreateInfo-uniformBuffers-10637
  If `uniformBuffers` is VK_PIPELINE_ROBUSTNESS_BUFFER_BEHAVIOR_ROBUST_BUFFER_ACCESS or VK_PIPELINE_ROBUSTNESS_BUFFER_BEHAVIOR_ROBUST_BUFFER_ACCESS_2, and either the `descriptorBindingInlineUniformBlockUpdateAfterBind` feature, the `descriptorBindingUniformBufferUpdateAfterBind` feature, or the `descriptorBindingUniformTexelBufferUpdateAfterBind` feature is enabled on the device, `robustBufferAccessUpdateAfterBind` must be VK_TRUE

- VUID-VkPipelineRobustnessCreateInfo-images-10638
  If `images` is VK_PIPELINE_ROBUSTNESS_IMAGE_BEHAVIOR_ROBUST_IMAGE_ACCESS or VK_PIPELINE_ROBUSTNESS_IMAGE_BEHAVIOR_ROBUST_IMAGE_ACCESS_2, and either the `descriptorBindingStorageImageUpdateAfterBind` feature or the `descriptorBindingSampledImageUpdateAfterBind` feature is enabled on the device, `robustBufferAccessUpdateAfterBind` must be VK_TRUE

Valid Usage (Implicit)

- VUID-VkPipelineRobustnessCreateInfo-sType-sType
  `sType` must be VK_STRUCTURE_TYPE_PIPELINE_ROBUSTNESS_CREATE_INFO

- VUID-VkPipelineRobustnessCreateInfo-storageBuffers-parameter
  `storageBuffers` must be a valid VkPipelineRobustnessBufferBehavior value

- VUID-VkPipelineRobustnessCreateInfo-uniformBuffers-parameter
  `uniformBuffers` must be a valid VkPipelineRobustnessBufferBehavior value

- VUID-VkPipelineRobustnessCreateInfo-vertexInputs-parameter
  `vertexInputs` must be a valid VkPipelineRobustnessBufferBehavior value

- VUID-VkPipelineRobustnessCreateInfo-images-parameter
  `images` must be a valid VkPipelineRobustnessImageBehavior value

Structure Chaining

Extends the structures

  - VkComputePipelineCreateInfo

  - VkGraphicsPipelineCreateInfo

  - VkPipelineShaderStageCreateInfo

  - VkRayTracingPipelineCreateInfoKHR

## See Also

VK_EXT_pipeline_robustness, VK_VERSION_1_4, VkPipelineRobustnessBufferBehavior, VkPipelineRobustnessImageBehavior, VkStructureType

## 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