clEnqueueMapImage

Enqueues a command to map a region of an image object into the host address space and returns a pointer to this mapped region.

void * clEnqueueMapImage ( cl_command_queue command_queue,
  cl_mem image,
  cl_bool blocking_map,
  cl_map_flags map_flags,
  const size_t origin[3],
  const size_t region[3],
  size_t *image_row_pitch,
  size_t *image_slice_pitch,
  cl_uint num_events_in_wait_list,
  const cl_event *event_wait_list,
  cl_event *event,
  cl_int *errcode_ret)

Parameters

command_queue

Must be a valid command-queue.

image

A valid image object. The OpenCL context associated with command_queue and image must be the same.

blocking_map

Indicates if the map operation is blocking or non-blocking. If blocking_map is CL_TRUE, clEnqueueMapImage does not return until the specified region in image can be mapped.

If blocking_map is CL_FALSE i.e. map operation is non-blocking, the pointer to the mapped region returned by clEnqueueMapImage cannot be used until the map command has completed. The event argument returns an event object which can be used to query the execution status of the map command. When the map command is completed, the application can access the contents of the mapped region using the pointer returned by clEnqueueMapImage.

map_flags

Is a bit-field and can be set to CL_MAP_READ to indicate that the region specified by (origin, region) in the image object is being mapped for reading, and/or CL_MAP_WRITE to indicate that the region specified by (origin, region) in the image object is being mapped for writing.

origin, region

Define the (x, y, z) offset in pixels and (width, height, depth) in pixels of the 2D or 3D rectangle region that is to be mapped. If image is a 2D image object, the z value given by origin[2] must be 0 and the depth value given by region[2] must be 1.

image_row_pitch

Returns the scan-line pitch in bytes for the mapped region. This must be a non-NULL value.

image_slice_pitch

Returns the size in bytes of each 2D slice for the mapped region. For a 2D image, zero is returned if this argument is not NULL. For a 3D image, image_slice_pitch must be a non-NULL value.

event_wait_list , num_events_in_wait_list

Specify events that need to complete before clEnqueueMapImage can be executed. If event_wait_list is NULL, then clEnqueueMapImage does not wait on any event to complete. If event_wait_list is NULL, num_events_in_wait_list must be 0. If event_wait_list is not NULL, the list of events pointed to by event_wait_list must be valid and num_events_in_wait_list must be greater than 0. The events specified in event_wait_list act as synchronization points. The context associated with events in event_wait_list and command_queue must be the same.

event

Returns an event object that identifies this particular copy command and can be used to query or queue a wait for this particular command to complete. event can be NULL in which case it will not be possible for the application to query the status of this command or queue a wait for this command to complete.

errcode_ret

Returns an appropriate error code. If errcode_ret is NULL, no error code is returned.

Notes

If the image object is created with CL_MEM_USE_HOST_PTR set in mem_flags, the following will be true:

  • The host_ptr specified in clCreateImage2d or clCreateImage3d is guaranteed to contain the latest bits in the region being mapped when the clEnqueueMapImage command has completed.
  • The pointer value returned by clEnqueueMapImage will be derived from the host_ptr specified when the image object is created.

Mapped image objects are unmapped using clEnqueueUnmapMemObject.

The contents of the regions of a memory object mapped for writing (i.e. CL_MAP_WRITE is set in map_flags argument to clEnqueueMapBuffer or clEnqueueMapImage) are considered to be undefined until this region is unmapped. Reads and writes by a kernel executing on a device to a memory region(s) mapped for writing are undefined.

Multiple command-queues can map a region or overlapping regions of a memory object for reading (i.e. map_flags = CL_MAP_READ). The contents of the regions of a memory object mapped for reading can also be read by kernels executing on a device(s). The behavior of writes by a kernel executing on a device to a mapped region of a memory object is undefined. Mapping (and unmapping) overlapped regions of a memory object for writing is undefined.

The behavior of OpenCL function calls that enqueue commands that write or copy to regions of a memory object that are mapped is undefined.

The pointer returned maps a 2D or 3D region starting at origin and is at least (image_row_pitch * region[1]) pixels in size for a 2D image, and is at least (image_slice_pitch * region[2]) pixels in size for a 3D image. The result of a memory access outside this region is undefined.

Errors

clEnqueueMapImage will return a pointer to the mapped region if the function is executed successfully. The errcode_ret is set to CL_SUCCESS.

A NULL pointer is returned otherwise with one of the following error values returned in errcode_ret:

  • CL_INVALID_COMMAND_QUEUE if command_queue is not a valid command-queue.
  • CL_INVALID_CONTEXT if the context associated with command_queue and image are not the same or if the context associated with command_queue and events in event_wait_list are not the same.
  • CL_INVALID_MEM_OBJECT if image is not a valid image object.
  • CL_INVALID_VALUE if region being mapped given by (origin, origin+region) is out of bounds or if values specified in map_flags are not valid.
  • CL_INVALID_VALUE if image is a 2D image object and origin[2] is not equal to 0 or region[2] is not equal to 1.
  • CL_INVALID_VALUE if image_row_pitch is NULL.
  • CL_INVALID_VALUE if image is a 3D image object and image_slice_pitch is NULL.
  • CL_INVALID_EVENT_WAIT_LIST if event_wait_list is NULL and num_events_in_wait_list greater than 0, or event_wait_list is not NULL and num_events_in_wait_list is 0, or if event objects in event_wait_list are not valid events.
  • CL_INVALID_IMAGE_SIZE if image dimensions (image width, height, specified or compute row and/or slice pitch) for image are not supported by device associated with queue.
  • CL_MAP_FAILURE if there is a failure to map the requested region into the host address space. This error cannot occur for image objects created with CL_MEM_USE_HOST_PTR or CL_MEM_ALLOC_HOST_PTR.
  • CL_MEM_OBJECT_ALLOCATION_FAILURE if there is a failure to allocate memory for data store associated with buffer.
  • CL_EXEC_STATUS_ERROR_FOR_EVENTS_IN_WAIT_LIST if the map operation is blocking and the execution status of any of the events in event_wait_list is a negative integer value.
  • CL_INVALID_OPERATION if the device associated with command_queue does not support images (i.e. CL_DEVICE_IMAGE_SUPPORT specified in the table of OpenCL Device Queries for clGetDeviceInfo.
  • CL_OUT_OF_RESOURCES if there is a failure to allocate resources required by the OpenCL implementation on the device.
  • CL_OUT_OF_HOST_MEMORY if there is a failure to allocate resources required by the OpenCL implementation on the host.

Specification

OpenCL Specification

Also see

clEnqueueMapBuffer, clEnqueueUnmapMemObject

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