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                                                "key": "validate_core",
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                                "LINUX",
                                "MACOS",
                                "ANDROID"
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                            "type": "BOOL",
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                                "MACOS",
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                                "MACOS",
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                            "url": "${LUNARG_SDK}/synchronization_usage.html",
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                                "LINUX",
                                "MACOS",
                                "ANDROID"
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                                        "LINUX"
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                                                "LINUX"
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                                                "LINUX"
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                                                        "key": "validate_gpu_based",
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                                                "LINUX"
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                                                        "key": "validate_gpu_based",
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                                    "description": "Check for API usage errors at shader execution time.",
                                    "url": "${LUNARG_SDK}/gpu_validation.html",
                                    "platforms": [
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                                        "LINUX"
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                                                "LINUX"
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                                                    "description": "Enable descriptors and buffer out of bounds validation when using descriptor indexing",
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                                                    "default": true,
                                                    "platforms": [
                                                        "WINDOWS",
                                                        "LINUX"
                                                    ],
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                                                                "key": "gpuav_shader_instrumentation",
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                                                            "description": "Warn on out of bounds accesses even if robustness is enabled",
                                                            "type": "BOOL",
                                                            "default": true,
                                                            "platforms": [
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                                                                "LINUX"
                                                            ],
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                                                {
                                                    "key": "gpuav_buffer_address_oob",
                                                    "label": "Out of bounds buffer device addresses",
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                                                        "LINUX"
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                                                        "settings": [
                                                            {
                                                                "key": "gpuav_shader_instrumentation",
                                                                "value": true
                                                            }
                                                        ]
                                                    },
                                                    "settings": [
                                                        {
                                                            "key": "gpuav_max_buffer_device_addresses",
                                                            "label": "Maximum number of buffer device addresses in use at one time",
                                                            "description": "",
                                                            "type": "INT",
                                                            "default": 10000,
                                                            "range": {
                                                                "min": 100,
                                                                "max": 10000000
                                                            },
                                                            "platforms": [
                                                                "WINDOWS",
                                                                "LINUX"
                                                            ],
                                                            "dependence": {
                                                                "mode": "ALL",
                                                                "settings": [
                                                                    {
                                                                        "key": "gpuav_shader_instrumentation",
                                                                        "value": true
                                                                    }
                                                                ]
                                                            }
                                                        }
                                                    ]
                                                },
                                                {
                                                    "key": "gpuav_validate_ray_query",
                                                    "label": "RayQuery SPIR-V Instructions",
                                                    "description": "Enable shader instrumentation on OpRayQueryInitializeKHR",
                                                    "type": "BOOL",
                                                    "default": true,
                                                    "platforms": [
                                                        "WINDOWS",
                                                        "LINUX"
                                                    ],
                                                    "dependence": {
                                                        "mode": "ALL",
                                                        "settings": [
                                                            {
                                                                "key": "gpuav_shader_instrumentation",
                                                                "value": true
                                                            }
                                                        ]
                                                    }
                                                },
                                                {
                                                    "key": "gpuav_cache_instrumented_shaders",
                                                    "label": "Cache instrumented shaders rather than instrumenting them on every run",
                                                    "description": "Enable instrumented shader caching",
                                                    "type": "BOOL",
                                                    "default": true,
                                                    "platforms": [
                                                        "WINDOWS",
                                                        "LINUX"
                                                    ],
                                                    "dependence": {
                                                        "mode": "ALL",
                                                        "settings": [
                                                            {
                                                                "key": "gpuav_shader_instrumentation",
                                                                "value": true
                                                            }
                                                        ]
                                                    }
                                                },
                                                {
                                                    "key": "gpuav_select_instrumented_shaders",
                                                    "label": "Enable instrumenting shaders selectively",
                                                    "description": "Select which shaders to instrument passing a VkValidationFeaturesEXT struct with GPU-AV enabled in the VkShaderModuleCreateInfo pNext",
                                                    "type": "BOOL",
                                                    "default": false,
                                                    "platforms": [
                                                        "WINDOWS",
                                                        "LINUX"
                                                    ],
                                                    "dependence": {
                                                        "mode": "ALL",
                                                        "settings": [
                                                            {
                                                                "key": "gpuav_shader_instrumentation",
                                                                "value": true
                                                            }
                                                        ]
                                                    }
                                                }
                                            ]
                                        },
                                        {
                                            "key": "gpuav_buffers_validation",
                                            "label": "Buffer content validation",
                                            "description": "Validate buffers containing parameters used in indirect Vulkan commands, or used in copy commands",
                                            "type": "BOOL",
                                            "default": true,
                                            "platforms": [
                                                "WINDOWS",
                                                "LINUX"
                                            ],
                                            "dependence": {
                                                "mode": "ALL",
                                                "settings": [
                                                    {
                                                        "key": "validate_gpu_based",
                                                        "value": "GPU_BASED_GPU_ASSISTED"
                                                    }
                                                ]
                                            },
                                            "settings": [
                                                {
                                                    "key": "gpuav_indirect_draws_buffers",
                                                    "label": "Indirect draws parameters",
                                                    "type": "BOOL",
                                                    "default": true,
                                                    "description": "Validate buffers containing draw parameters used in indirect draw commands",
                                                    "platforms": [
                                                        "WINDOWS",
                                                        "LINUX"
                                                    ],
                                                    "dependence": {
                                                        "mode": "ALL",
                                                        "settings": [
                                                            {
                                                                "key": "gpuav_buffers_validation",
                                                                "value": true
                                                            }
                                                        ]
                                                    }
                                                },
                                                {
                                                    "key": "indirect_dispatches",
                                                    "label": "Indirect dispatches parameters",
                                                    "type": "BOOL",
                                                    "default": true,
                                                    "description": "Validate buffers containing dispatch parameters used in indirect dispatch commands",
                                                    "platforms": [
                                                        "WINDOWS",
                                                        "LINUX"
                                                    ],
                                                    "dependence": {
                                                        "mode": "ALL",
                                                        "settings": [
                                                            {
                                                                "key": "gpuav_buffers_validation",
                                                                "value": true
                                                            }
                                                        ]
                                                    }
                                                },
                                                {
                                                    "key": "indirect_trace_rays",
                                                    "label": "Indirect trace rays parameters",
                                                    "type": "BOOL",
                                                    "default": true,
                                                    "description": "Validate buffers containing ray tracing parameters used in indirect ray tracing commands",
                                                    "platforms": [
                                                        "WINDOWS",
                                                        "LINUX"
                                                    ],
                                                    "dependence": {
                                                        "mode": "ALL",
                                                        "settings": [
                                                            {
                                                                "key": "gpuav_buffers_validation",
                                                                "value": true
                                                            }
                                                        ]
                                                    }
                                                },
                                                {
                                                    "key": "gpuav_buffer_copies",
                                                    "label": "Buffer copies",
                                                    "type": "BOOL",
                                                    "default": true,
                                                    "description": "Validate copies involving a VkBuffer. Right now only validates copy buffer to image.",
                                                    "platforms": [
                                                        "WINDOWS",
                                                        "LINUX"
                                                    ],
                                                    "dependence": {
                                                        "mode": "ALL",
                                                        "settings": [
                                                            {
                                                                "key": "gpuav_buffers_validation",
                                                                "value": true
                                                            }
                                                        ]
                                                    }
                                                }
                                            ]
                                        },
                                        {
                                            "key": "gpuav_advanced_settings",
                                            "label": "Advanced Settings",
                                            "description": "GPU-AV advanced settings",
                                            "type": "GROUP",
                                            "view": "ADVANCED",
                                            "platforms": [
                                                "WINDOWS",
                                                "LINUX"
                                            ],
                                            "dependence": {
                                                "mode": "ALL",
                                                "settings": [
                                                    {
                                                        "key": "validate_gpu_based",
                                                        "value": "GPU_BASED_GPU_ASSISTED"
                                                    }
                                                ]
                                            },
                                            "settings": [
                                                {
                                                    "key": "gpuav_reserve_binding_slot",
                                                    "label": "Reserve Descriptor Set Binding Slot",
                                                    "type": "BOOL",
                                                    "default": true,
                                                    "description": "Specifies that the validation layers reserve a descriptor set binding slot for their own use. The layer reports a value for VkPhysicalDeviceLimits::maxBoundDescriptorSets that is one less than the value reported by the device. If the device supports the binding of only one descriptor set, the validation layer does not perform GPU-assisted validation.",
                                                    "platforms": [
                                                        "WINDOWS",
                                                        "LINUX"
                                                    ],
                                                    "dependence": {
                                                        "mode": "ALL",
                                                        "settings": [
                                                            {
                                                                "key": "validate_gpu_based",
                                                                "value": "GPU_BASED_GPU_ASSISTED"
                                                            }
                                                        ]
                                                    }
                                                },
                                                {
                                                    "key": "gpuav_vma_linear_output",
                                                    "label": "Linear Memory Allocation Mode",
                                                    "description": "Use VMA linear memory allocations for GPU-AV output buffers instead of finding best place for new allocations among free regions to optimize memory usage. Enabling this setting reduces performance cost but disabling this method minimizes memory usage.",
                                                    "type": "BOOL",
                                                    "default": true,
                                                    "platforms": [
                                                        "WINDOWS",
                                                        "LINUX"
                                                    ],
                                                    "dependence": {
                                                        "mode": "ALL",
                                                        "settings": [
                                                            {
                                                                "key": "validate_gpu_based",
                                                                "value": "GPU_BASED_GPU_ASSISTED"
                                                            }
                                                        ]
                                                    }
                                                }
                                            ]
                                        },
                                        {
                                            "key": "gpuav_debug_settings",
                                            "label": "Developer Debug Settings",
                                            "description": "GPU-AV debug settings",
                                            "type": "GROUP",
                                            "view": "ADVANCED",
                                            "platforms": [
                                                "WINDOWS",
                                                "LINUX"
                                            ],
                                            "dependence": {
                                                "mode": "ALL",
                                                "settings": [
                                                    {
                                                        "key": "validate_gpu_based",
                                                        "value": "GPU_BASED_GPU_ASSISTED"
                                                    }
                                                ]
                                            },
                                            "settings": [
                                                {
                                                    "key": "gpuav_debug_validate_instrumented_shaders",
                                                    "label": "Validate instrumented shaders",
                                                    "description": "Run spirv-val after doing shader instrumentation",
                                                    "type": "BOOL",
                                                    "default": false,
                                                    "platforms": [
                                                        "WINDOWS",
                                                        "LINUX"
                                                    ],
                                                    "dependence": {
                                                        "mode": "ALL",
                                                        "settings": [
                                                            {
                                                                "key": "validate_gpu_based",
                                                                "value": "GPU_BASED_GPU_ASSISTED"
                                                            }
                                                        ]
                                                    }
                                                },
                                                {
                                                    "key": "gpuav_debug_dump_instrumented_shaders",
                                                    "label": "Dump instrumented shaders",
                                                    "description": "Will dump the instrumented shaders (before and after) to working directory",
                                                    "type": "BOOL",
                                                    "default": false,
                                                    "platforms": [
                                                        "WINDOWS",
                                                        "LINUX"
                                                    ],
                                                    "dependence": {
                                                        "mode": "ALL",
                                                        "settings": [
                                                            {
                                                                "key": "validate_gpu_based",
                                                                "value": "GPU_BASED_GPU_ASSISTED"
                                                            }
                                                        ]
                                                    }
                                                }
                                            ]
                                        }
                                    ]
                                }
                            ]
                        },
                        {
                            "key": "validate_best_practices",
                            "label": "Best Practices",
                            "description": "Outputs warnings related to common misuse of the API, but which are not explicitly prohibited by the specification.",
                            "url": "${LUNARG_SDK}/best_practices.html",
                            "type": "BOOL",
                            "default": false,
                            "expanded": true,
                            "status": "STABLE",
                            "platforms": [
                                "WINDOWS",
                                "LINUX",
                                "MACOS",
                                "ANDROID"
                            ],
                            "settings": [
                                {
                                    "key": "validate_best_practices_arm",
                                    "label": "ARM-specific best practices",
                                    "description": "Outputs warnings for spec-conforming but non-ideal code on ARM GPUs.",
                                    "type": "BOOL",
                                    "default": false,
                                    "platforms": [
                                        "WINDOWS",
                                        "LINUX",
                                        "MACOS",
                                        "ANDROID"
                                    ],
                                    "dependence": {
                                        "mode": "ALL",
                                        "settings": [
                                            {
                                                "key": "validate_best_practices",
                                                "value": true
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                },
                                {
                                    "key": "validate_best_practices_amd",
                                    "label": "AMD-specific best practices",
                                    "description": "Outputs warnings for spec-conforming but non-ideal code on AMD GPUs.",
                                    "type": "BOOL",
                                    "default": false,
                                    "platforms": [
                                        "WINDOWS",
                                        "LINUX",
                                        "MACOS"
                                    ],
                                    "dependence": {
                                        "mode": "ALL",
                                        "settings": [
                                            {
                                                "key": "validate_best_practices",
                                                "value": true
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                },
                                {
                                    "key": "validate_best_practices_img",
                                    "label": "IMG-specific best practices",
                                    "description": "Outputs warnings for spec-conforming but non-ideal code on Imagination GPUs.",
                                    "type": "BOOL",
                                    "default": false,
                                    "platforms": [
                                        "WINDOWS",
                                        "LINUX",
                                        "MACOS"
                                    ],
                                    "dependence": {
                                        "mode": "ALL",
                                        "settings": [
                                            {
                                                "key": "validate_best_practices",
                                                "value": true
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                },
                                {
                                    "key": "validate_best_practices_nvidia",
                                    "label": "NVIDIA-specific best practices",
                                    "description": "Outputs warnings for spec-conforming but non-ideal code on NVIDIA GPUs.",
                                    "type": "BOOL",
                                    "default": false,
                                    "platforms": [
                                        "WINDOWS",
                                        "LINUX",
                                        "ANDROID"
                                    ],
                                    "dependence": {
                                        "mode": "ALL",
                                        "settings": [
                                            {
                                                "key": "validate_best_practices",
                                                "value": true
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                }
                            ]
                        }
                    ]
                },
                {
                    "key": "debug_action",
                    "label": "Debug Action",
                    "description": "Specifies what action is to be taken when a layer reports information",
                    "type": "FLAGS",
                    "flags": [
                        {
                            "key": "VK_DBG_LAYER_ACTION_LOG_MSG",
                            "label": "Log Message",
                            "description": "Log a txt message to stdout or to a log filename.",
                            "settings": [
                                {
                                    "key": "log_filename",
                                    "label": "Log Filename",
                                    "description": "Specifies the output filename",
                                    "type": "SAVE_FILE",
                                    "default": "stdout",
                                    "dependence": {
                                        "mode": "ALL",
                                        "settings": [
                                            {
                                                "key": "debug_action",
                                                "value": [
                                                    "VK_DBG_LAYER_ACTION_LOG_MSG"
                                                ]
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                }
                            ]
                        },
                        {
                            "key": "VK_DBG_LAYER_ACTION_CALLBACK",
                            "label": "Callback",
                            "description": "Call user defined callback function(s) that have been registered via the VK_EXT_debug_report extension. Since application must register callback, this is a NOOP for the settings file.",
                            "view": "HIDDEN"
                        },
                        {
                            "key": "VK_DBG_LAYER_ACTION_DEBUG_OUTPUT",
                            "label": "Debug Output",
                            "description": "Log a txt message using the Windows OutputDebugString function.",
                            "platforms": [
                                "WINDOWS"
                            ]
                        },
                        {
                            "key": "VK_DBG_LAYER_ACTION_BREAK",
                            "label": "Break",
                            "description": "Trigger a breakpoint if a debugger is in use."
                        }
                    ],
                    "default": [
                        "VK_DBG_LAYER_ACTION_LOG_MSG"
                    ]
                },
                {
                    "key": "report_flags",
                    "label": "Message Severity",
                    "description": "Comma-delineated list of options specifying the types of messages to be reported",
                    "type": "FLAGS",
                    "flags": [
                        {
                            "key": "info",
                            "label": "Info",
                            "description": "Report informational messages."
                        },
                        {
                            "key": "warn",
                            "label": "Warning",
                            "description": "Report warnings from using the API in a manner which may lead to undefined behavior or to warn the user of common trouble spots. A warning does NOT necessarily signify illegal application behavior."
                        },
                        {
                            "key": "perf",
                            "label": "Performance",
                            "description": "Report usage of the API that may cause suboptimal performance."
                        },
                        {
                            "key": "error",
                            "label": "Error",
                            "description": "Report errors in API usage."
                        },
                        {
                            "key": "debug",
                            "label": "Debug",
                            "description": "For layer development. Report messages for debugging layer behavior.",
                            "view": "HIDDEN"
                        }
                    ],
                    "default": [
                        "error"
                    ]
                },
                {
                    "key": "enable_message_limit",
                    "label": "Limit Duplicated Messages",
                    "description": "Enable limiting of duplicate messages.",
                    "type": "BOOL",
                    "default": true,
                    "settings": [
                        {
                            "key": "duplicate_message_limit",
                            "env": "VK_LAYER_DUPLICATE_MESSAGE_LIMIT",
                            "label": "Max Duplicated Messages",
                            "description": "Maximum number of times any single validation message should be reported.",
                            "type": "INT",
                            "default": 10,
                            "range": {
                                "min": 1
                            },
                            "dependence": {
                                "mode": "ALL",
                                "settings": [
                                    {
                                        "key": "enable_message_limit",
                                        "value": true
                                    }
                                ]
                            }
                        }
                    ]
                },
                {
                    "key": "message_id_filter",
                    "label": "Mute Message VUIDs",
                    "description": "List of VUIDs and VUID identifers which are to be IGNORED by the validation layer",
                    "type": "LIST",
                    "env": "VK_LAYER_MESSAGE_ID_FILTER",
                    "default": []
                },
                {
                    "key": "message_format",
                    "label": "Message Format",
                    "description": "Specifies how error messages are reported",
                    "type": "GROUP",
                    "expanded": true,
                    "settings": [
                        {
                            "key": "message_format_display_application_name",
                            "label": "Display Application Name",
                            "description": "Useful when running multiple instances to know which instance the message is from.","type": "BOOL",
                            "default": false,
                            "platforms": [
                                "WINDOWS",
                                "LINUX",
                                "MACOS",
                                "ANDROID"
                            ]
                        }
                    ]
                },
                {
                    "key": "disables",
                    "label": "Disables",
                    "description": "Specify areas of validation to be disabled",
                    "type": "FLAGS",
                    "env": "VK_LAYER_DISABLES",
                    "flags": [
                        {
                            "key": "VK_VALIDATION_FEATURE_DISABLE_THREAD_SAFETY_EXT",
                            "label": "Thread Safety",
                            "description": "Thread checks. In order to not degrade performance, it might be best to run your program with thread-checking disabled most of the time, enabling it occasionally for a quick sanity check or when debugging difficult application behaviors."
                        },
                        {
                            "key": "VK_VALIDATION_FEATURE_DISABLE_API_PARAMETERS_EXT",
                            "label": "Stateless Parameter",
                            "description": "Stateless parameter checks. This may not always be necessary late in a development cycle."
                        },
                        {
                            "key": "VK_VALIDATION_FEATURE_DISABLE_OBJECT_LIFETIMES_EXT",
                            "label": "Object Lifetime",
                            "description": "Object tracking checks. This may not always be necessary late in a development cycle."
                        },
                        {
                            "key": "VK_VALIDATION_FEATURE_DISABLE_CORE_CHECKS_EXT",
                            "label": "Core",
                            "description": "The main, heavy-duty validation checks. This may be valuable early in the development cycle to reduce validation output while correcting parameter/object usage errors."
                        },
                        {
                            "key": "VK_VALIDATION_FEATURE_DISABLE_UNIQUE_HANDLES_EXT",
                            "label": "Handle Wrapping",
                            "description": "Handle wrapping checks. Disable this feature if you are exerience crashes when creating new extensions or developing new Vulkan objects/structures."
                        },
                        {
                            "key": "VK_VALIDATION_FEATURE_DISABLE_SHADERS_EXT",
                            "label": "Shader Validation",
                            "description": "Shader checks. These checks can be CPU intensive during application start up, especially if Shader Validation Caching is also disabled.",
                            "view": "ADVANCED"
                        },
                        {
                            "key": "VALIDATION_CHECK_DISABLE_COMMAND_BUFFER_STATE",
                            "label": "Command Buffer State",
                            "description": "Check that all Vulkan objects used by a command buffer have not been destroyed. These checks can be CPU intensive for some applications.",
                            "view": "ADVANCED"
                        },
                        {
                            "key": "VALIDATION_CHECK_DISABLE_IMAGE_LAYOUT_VALIDATION",
                            "label": "Image Layout",
                            "description": "Check that the layout of each image subresource is correct whenever it is used by a command buffer. These checks are very CPU intensive for some applications.",
                            "view": "ADVANCED"
                        },
                        {
                            "key": "VALIDATION_CHECK_DISABLE_QUERY_VALIDATION",
                            "label": "Query",
                            "description": "Checks for commands that use VkQueryPool objects.",
                            "view": "ADVANCED"
                        },
                        {
                            "key": "VALIDATION_CHECK_DISABLE_OBJECT_IN_USE",
                            "label": "Object in Use",
                            "description": "Check that Vulkan objects are not in use by a command buffer when they are destroyed.",
                            "view": "ADVANCED"
                        },
                        {
                            "key": "VALIDATION_CHECK_DISABLE_SYNCHRONIZATION_VALIDATION_QUEUE_SUBMIT",
                            "label": "QueueSubmit Synchronization Validation",
                            "description": "Check synchronization validation between submitted command buffers when Synchronization Validation is enabled.",
                            "view": "ADVANCED"
                        },
                        {
                            "key": "VK_VALIDATION_FEATURE_DISABLE_SHADER_VALIDATION_CACHE_EXT",
                            "label": "Shader Validation Caching",
                            "description": "Disable caching of shader validation results.",
                            "view": "ADVANCED"
                        }
                    ],
                    "default": [
                        "VK_VALIDATION_FEATURE_DISABLE_THREAD_SAFETY_EXT"
                    ]
                },
                {
                    "key": "enables",
                    "label": "Enables",
                    "description": "Setting an option here will enable specialized areas of validation",
                    "type": "FLAGS",
                    "env": "VK_LAYER_ENABLES",
                    "flags": [
                        {
                            "key": "VK_VALIDATION_FEATURE_ENABLE_SYNCHRONIZATION_VALIDATION_EXT",
                            "label": "Synchronization",
                            "description": "This feature reports resource access conflicts due to missing or incorrect synchronization operations between actions (Draw, Copy, Dispatch, Blit) reading or writing the same regions of memory.",
                            "url": "${LUNARG_SDK}/synchronization_usage.html",
                            "status": "STABLE",
                            "platforms": [
                                "WINDOWS",
                                "LINUX",
                                "MACOS",
                                "ANDROID"
                            ]
                        },
                        {
                            "key": "VK_VALIDATION_FEATURE_ENABLE_DEBUG_PRINTF_EXT",
                            "label": "Debug Printf",
                            "description": "Enables processing of debug printf instructions in shaders and sending debug strings to the debug callback.",
                            "url": "${LUNARG_SDK}/debug_printf.html",
                            "status": "STABLE",
                            "platforms": [
                                "WINDOWS",
                                "LINUX"
                            ]
                        },
                        {
                            "key": "VK_VALIDATION_FEATURE_ENABLE_GPU_ASSISTED_EXT",
                            "label": "GPU-Assisted",
                            "description": "Check for API usage errors at shader execution time.",
                            "url": "${LUNARG_SDK}/gpu_validation.html",
                            "platforms": [
                                "WINDOWS",
                                "LINUX"
                            ]
                        },
                        {
                            "key": "VK_VALIDATION_FEATURE_ENABLE_GPU_ASSISTED_RESERVE_BINDING_SLOT_EXT",
                            "label": "Reserve Descriptor Set Binding Slot",
                            "description": "Specifies that the validation layers reserve a descriptor set binding slot for their own use. The layer reports a value for VkPhysicalDeviceLimits::maxBoundDescriptorSets that is one less than the value reported by the device. If the device supports the binding of only one descriptor set, the validation layer does not perform GPU-assisted validation.",
                            "platforms": [
                                "WINDOWS",
                                "LINUX"
                            ]
                        },
                        {
                            "key": "VK_VALIDATION_FEATURE_ENABLE_BEST_PRACTICES_EXT",
                            "label": "Best Practices",
                            "description": "Activating this feature enables the output of warnings related to common misuse of the API, but which are not explicitly prohibited by the specification.",
                            "url": "${LUNARG_SDK}/best_practices.html",
                            "platforms": [
                                "WINDOWS",
                                "LINUX",
                                "MACOS",
                                "ANDROID"
                            ]
                        },
                        {
                            "key": "VALIDATION_CHECK_ENABLE_VENDOR_SPECIFIC_ARM",
                            "label": "ARM-specific best practices",
                            "description": "Activating this feature enables the output of warnings related to ARM-specific misuse of the API, but which are not explicitly prohibited by the specification.",
                            "platforms": [
                                "WINDOWS",
                                "LINUX",
                                "MACOS",
                                "ANDROID"
                            ]
                        },
                        {
                            "key": "VALIDATION_CHECK_ENABLE_VENDOR_SPECIFIC_AMD",
                            "label": "AMD-specific best practices",
                            "description": "Adds check for spec-conforming but non-ideal code on AMD GPUs.",
                            "platforms": [
                                "WINDOWS",
                                "LINUX",
                                "MACOS"
                            ]
                        },
                        {
                            "key": "VALIDATION_CHECK_ENABLE_VENDOR_SPECIFIC_IMG",
                            "label": "IMG-specific best practices",
                            "description": "Adds check for spec-conforming but non-ideal code on Imagination GPUs.",
                            "platforms": [
                                "WINDOWS",
                                "LINUX",
                                "MACOS"
                            ]
                        },
                        {
                            "key": "VALIDATION_CHECK_ENABLE_VENDOR_SPECIFIC_NVIDIA",
                            "label": "NVIDIA-specific best practices",
                            "description": "Activating this feature enables the output of warnings related to NVIDIA-specific misuse of the API, but which are not explicitly prohibited by the specification.",
                            "platforms": [
                                "WINDOWS",
                                "LINUX",
                                "ANDROID"
                            ]
                        },
                        {
                            "key": "VALIDATION_CHECK_ENABLE_VENDOR_SPECIFIC_ALL",
                            "label": "Hardware specific best practices",
                            "description": "Activating this feature enables all vendor specific best practices.",
                            "platforms": [
                                "WINDOWS",
                                "LINUX",
                                "ANDROID"
                            ]
                        }
                    ],
                    "default": []
                }
            ]
        }
    }
}
