• Notices
    • Copyright Notices
    • Disclaimers
    • Trademarks
  • Overview of OS/2 for SMP Version 2.11
    • Architectural Design Objectives
  • Platform Specific Drivers (PSDs)
    • Platform Specific Driver Architecture and Structure
    • OS/2 Initialization
    • PSD Function Glossary
    • PSD Functions
      • PSD_INSTALL
      • PSD_DEINSTALL
      • PSD_INIT
      • PSD_PROC_INIT
      • PSD_START_PROC
      • PSD_GET_NUM_OF_PROCS
      • PSD_GEN_IPI
      • PSD_END_IPI
      • PSD_PORT_IO
      • PSD_IRQ_MASK
      • PSD_IRQ_REG
      • PSD_IRQ_EOI
      • PSD_APP_COMM
      • PSD_SET_ADV_INT_MODE
    • PSD Helps
      • PSDHLP_VMALLOC
      • PSDHLP_VMFREE
      • PSDHLP_SET_IRQ
      • PSDHLP_CALL_REAL_MODE
      • PSDHLP_VMLINTOPHYS
    • Application Programming Interface
      • DosCallPSD
      • Dos32TestPSD
  • Understanding Spinlocks
    • Spinlocks
    • Properties of Spinlocks
    • Spinlock Use Guidelines
  • Device Drivers In OS/2 for SMP V2.11
    • Device Driver Spinlocks
  • Application Considerations
    • Application Compatibility Requirements
    • Application Exploitation
    • New OS/2 for SMP V2.11 APIs
      • DosCreateSpinLock
      • DosAcquireSpinLock
      • DosReleaseSpinLock
      • DosFreeSpinLock
      • DosGetProcessorCount
      • DosGetProcessorIdleTime
      • DosGetProcessorStatus
      • DosSetProcessorStatus
      • DosAllocThreadLocalMemory
      • DosFreeThreadLocalMemory
      • DosQuerySysInfo
  • Avoiding Device Driver Deadlocks
    • Use of CLI/STI
    • Spinlocks Taken Out of Order
    • Blocking With Spinlocks Locked
    • Blocking
    • Interrupt Processing
  • New Device Helper (DevHlp) Routines
    • Physical DevHlps
      • DevHlp_CreateSpinLock
      • DevHlp_FreeSpinLock
      • DevHlp_AcquireSpinLock
      • DevHlp_ReleaseSpinLock
      • DevHlp_Port_IO
      • DevHlp_SetIRQMask
      • DevHlp_GetIRQMask
    • Virtual Device Driver Helps
      • VDHPortIO
  • New Kernel Debugger Commands
  • The Single Processor Utility Program
  • OS/2 for SMP V2.11 Tools
  • Appendix A
    • Main program
    • Entry stub
    • PSD.H
    • Specific header
    • Makefile
  • Glossary