Chapter 1 Summary of Kernel-mode Support Routines

This chapter summarizes the kernel-mode support routines that Microsoft® Windows NT® kernel-mode drivers can call, according to the following general categories:

• Initialization and Unload in Section 1.1 

• IRPs in Section 1.2 

• Synchronization in Section 1.3 

• Memory in Section 1.4 

• DMA in Section 1.5 

• PIO in Section 1.6 

• Driver-managed queues in Section 1.7 

• Driver-dedicated system threads and system worker threads in Section 1.8 

• Strings in Section 1.9 

• Data Conversions in Section 1.10 

• Access to and access rights on driver-managed objects in Section 1.11 

• Handling errors in Section 1.12 

Some routines are listed in more than one section or subsection of this chapter.