Developing Drivers with the Windows Driver Foundation (Pro Developer)

A WDF synchronization mechanism in which the framework acquires a presentation lock at the queue object level.

A situation in which two or more routines attempt to access the same data and the result of the operation depends upon the order in which the access occurs.

A deliberate transfer of control to an exception handler when an exception occurs. A kernel-mode component, including any kernel-mode driver, cannot raise an exception while running at IRQL >= DISPATCH_LEVEL without crashing the system.

Any interrupt request level that is greater than PASSIVE_LEVEL.

A list of hardware resources that the PnP manager assigns to a device. The raw resource list reflects the physical design of the device.

A filter driver at the top of the kernel-mode device stack that facilitates communication between the kernel-mode device stack and all of the UMDF drivers on the system.

A driver-implemented function that is called at the driver's request after the completion of an I/O request that the driver created or sent down the stack.

A device whose devnode is a child of the root device in the PnP manager's device tree.

A form of DMA in which data is transferred to and from noncontiguous ranges of physical memory.

A list of one or more paired base addresses and lengths that describe the physical locations from which to transfer data in scatter/gather DMA.

Static Driver Verifier

A data structure used to hold per-object security information, including the object's owner, group, protection attributes, and audit information.

An attempt by a user-mode process to access an object without having the correct access rights for the requested operation.

A queue dispatching technique in which a queue delivers I/O requests to the driver one at a time, only after the previously dispatched request has been completed or requeued.

The management of two concurrent items of the same class, such as callback functions or I/O requests, to prevent their concurrent operation.

A GUID that identifies a device setup class.

A system or device power state other than the system or device working state, S0 or D0.

A driver that does not control any hardware, either directly or through a protocol such as USB.

A synchronization object that ensures mutually exclusive access at DISPATCH_LEVEL.

A testing method that involves examining the source or object code of a program without executing the code, typically to detect coding errors.

The use of static analysis to verify that the program complies with a specification or protocol.

A system feature that supports controlled transfers to exception handlers when certain runtime exceptions occur.

The unexpected removal of a device by a user without using the Device Manager or Safely Remove Programs application.

(1) An instance of the symbolic link object type, representing a "soft alias" that equates one name to another within the object manager's name space. (2) A file object with special properties. When a symbolic link file is encountered as a component of a path name, rather than opening the file itself, the file system is redirected to a target file.

System state S0, the fully on, fully operational power state.

A file that contains information about an executable image, including the names and addresses of functions and variables.

A name for a device that is typically created only by older drivers that run with applications that use MS-DOS device names to access a device.

A general term for the management of operations that share data or resources to ensure that access to such shared resources occurs in a controlled manner.

A configurable object-based mechanism through which a driver can specify the degree of concurrency for certain object callbacks.

The file extension used for kernel-mode driver binaries.

A file that contains a record of system events.

The level of power consumption by the system as a whole. System power states range from S0 to S5, where S0 is the fully-on working state and S5 is the completely powered-down state.