Ntoskrnl.exe

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http://svn.reactos.org/svn/reactos/trunk/reactos/ntoskrnl/?view=log

ChangeLog-0.0.17

• Added multiboot support to ntoskrnl
• Kernel can bow be booted with GRUB

ChangeLog-0.0.18

• Section and general memory manager enhancements
• Changed irq handler from C to assembler
• Established forwarded exports
• Implemented profiling
• Initial work on exception handling
• DMA support
• Kernel debugger
• Trace facility
• Added Intel MultiProcessor Specification support
• Began building PnP manager device tree
• Registry improvements
• Work on the filesystem cache
• Named pipe improvements
• Implemented atoms in ntoskrnl
• Enabled FASTCALL calling convention
• Rewrote stack allocation

ChangeLog-0.0.19

• Seperated the HALs from ntoskrnl.exe Casper Hornstroup
• IO Subsystem work Eric Kohl
• Initial OS level SEH support Casper Hornstroup
• Cache work Hartmut Birr
• Implemented basic ANSI/OEM <--> Unicode translation tables in the kernel Eric Kohl
• Implemented mutant object Eric Kohl
• Added system hive support and started hardware detection Eric Kohl
• Implemented LPC sections David Welch
• Implemented file system change notification Eric Kohl
• Work on caching, mutexes and paged pool memory David Welch
• Memory balancer David Welch
• Virtual memory support David Welch
• Swapping to disk David Welch
• Implemented PsLookupXxx() functions Eric Kohl
• Implemented process and thread notification routines Eric Kohl
• Started kernel queue implementation and added win32k support functions Eric Kohl
• Fixed a memory bug that often crashed the kernel on boot (dubbed the Frequent Crasher Bug or FCB) Hartmut Birr
• Fixed up object creation Eric Kohl

ChangeLog-0.0.20

• Implemented NtCreateToken and fixed up NtQueryInformationToken() Joseph Galbraith
• Minimize access to the module object via the object manager. Eric Kohl
• Use module list for internal module management. Eric Kohl
• Protect module list with a spinlock. Eric Kohl
• Registry improvements: Eric Kohl
  • Improved registry initialization
  • Registry-based driver loading for system-start drivers and auto-start drivers
  • Implemented registry links
• PICE now loaded automatically Eric Kohl
• Improved thread support David Welch
• Fixed a long-standing hack to open symbolic link objects Eric Kohl
• Implemented the ability to create suspended threads Eric Kohl
• Implemented binary tree, splay tree and hash table routines Casper Hornstroup
• Moved the hardcoded command line string from ntoskrnl to loadros Eric Kohl
• Use NT-compatible (VPB-based) mounting mechanism Eric Kohl

ChangeLog-0.0.21

• Implemented and fixed several ACL and SD functions Alexandru Matei
• Improved memory management functions David Welch
• Improved cache functions (David Welch, Hartmut Birr)
• Object manager fixes Hartmut Birr
• Some assembler optimizations for i386 Hartmut Birr
• IO improvement ([[Hartmut Birr, David Welch
• IO support for booting from a CDROM Eric Kohl

ChangeLog-0.1.0

• Implemented NtProtectVirtualMemory; msvcrt apps now work (David Welch)
• Memory management improvements,
• Fixes for SMP in the memory manager,
• Enable/Disable the irq in KeConnectInterrupt/KeDisconnectInterrupt,
• Enabled caching of directories and fat segments,
• Write back dirty pages from cache manager at shutdown (Hartmut Birr)
• File locking (Gunnar Dalsnes)
• Registry hive locking, packing value names,
• Deferred hive synchronization (Eric Kohl)
• Profiler (Casper Hornstrup)

ChangeLog-0.1.1

• IO improvements (Eric Kohl)
• Registry: Added hive flushing, key deletion, hize syncing (Eric Kohl)
• Flushing cache at shutdown (Hartmut Birr, Eric Kohl)
• Improved HalExamineMBR() to detect disk managers (Eric Kohl)
• Initial work on I/O completion (Gunnar Dalsnes)
• Improved ioctl requests and direct access input buffers (Hartmut Birr)
• Improved NtQuerySystemInformation (Aleksey Bragin)
• Added support for the Ontrack Disk Manager (Eric Kohl)

ChangeLog-0.1.3

• Bootscreen (programming: Casper Hornstrup, graphics: Steve Cockeram)
• Crash dumps to disk (David Welch)
• Addition of CacheAligned to PagedPool (Royce Mitchell)
• Redzone violation detection (Royce Mitchell)

ChangeLog-0.1.4

• Implementation of Ke(Save/Restore)FloatingPointState (Gé van Geldorp)
• Made existing eventpair code more efficient and added support for associating eventpairs with * threads and signaling them that way (Skywing)
• RtlRaiseException user mode implementation (Vizzini)
• KiRaiseUserExceptionDispatcher/KeRaiseUserException to raise user exceptions from kernel mode (Vizzini)
• Implemented the allocation type NonPagedPoolCacheAligned/NonPagedPoolCacheAlignedMustS (Hartmut Birr)
• Process fixes (Hartmut Birr)
• Plug and Play manager improvements (Filip Navara)
• Implemented NtUnloadDriver(), partial IoGetDeviceProperty(), IoGetDmaAdapter(), IoIsWdmVersionAvailable(), ExFreePoolWithTag (Filip Navara)
• Check for presence of \reactos\ntoskrnl.exe instead of REACTOS disk label to identify the boot cdrom device (Eric Kohl)

ChangeLog-0.1.5

• Improved implementation of IoMapTransfer, Implemented KeRemoveDeviceEntryQueue (Gunnar Dalsnes)

ChangeLog-0.2.0

• Implemented driver reinitialization (Eric Kohl)
• Added "addr" "x" and "tlist" commands to kdbg (Art Yerkes)
• Added the beginnings of an implementation of NtSetInformationToken (Art Yerkes)
• Implemented shared segments for images (Hartmut Birr)
• Work on the error log worker (Eric Kohl)
• IoReuseIrp, IoQueueThreadIrp, IoEnqueueIrp implementations (Gunnar Dalsnes)
• APC improvements (Gunnar Dalsnes)
• Exception handler on broken usermode stack pointer fix (Mike Nordell)

ChangeLog-0.2.1

• Print userland addresses where possible in bugchecks (Art Yerkes)
• InsertAscendingList adaption (Gunnar Dalsnes)
• KiAcquire/ReleaseSpinLock adaption (Gunnar Dalsnes)
• Added KiAcquire/ReleaseSpinLock (Gunnar Dalsnes)
• KiAcquire/ReleaseSpinLock adaption (Gunnar Dalsnes)
• Attempt to fix the display corruption problems when using bootvid.sys on certain hardware (Filip Navara)
• Do not make NtSecureConnectPort fail: for now direct the call to NtConnectPort (Emanuele Aliberti)
• NtOpenKey() should return a better status value if the desired key does not exist (Eric Kohl)
• Implementation of RtlStringFromGUID, IoOpenDeviceInterfaceRegistryKey and IoGetDeviceInterfaceAlias (Matthew Brace)
• Fixed some problems which occurs if a read only segment is changed to write and back to read only and if such a segment (or a page from such a segment) is paged out and reloaded again (Hartmut Birr)
• Check for a privat page and change only the page protection for such a page in MmAccessFaultSectionView (Hartmut Birr)
• Only lock a new page on exit from AccessFaultSectionView (Hartmut Birr)
• Fixed querying and enumerating the subkeys of HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE; this fixes bug #78 (Eric Kohl)
• Start parsing at the root object when an object path needs to be reparsed (Art Yerkes)
• Use macros for LPC message limits in current LPC implementation (Emanuele Aliberti)
• Implement RtlFindLeastSignificantBit(), RtlFindMostSignificantBit() and _itow() (Eric Kohl)
• LPC: initial work on NT/ROS compatibility (Emanuele Aliberti)
• Add byte swap functions (Eric Kohl)
• Set the previous pointer from the next block, if some blocks was merged (in add_to_free_list) (Hartmut Birr)
• Free or recycle the remaining path string after a call to ObFindObject (Hartmut Birr)
• Work on thread-awareness in gdbstub (Gé van Geldorp)
• Always lock the pages in MmProbeAndLockPages (Hartmut Birr)
• Locked the pages in MmCommitPagedPoolAddress, if it is necessary (Hartmut Birr)
• Try to avoid crashing when dumping out a corrupted stack (David Welch)

ChangeLog-0.2.2

• Set the previous pointer from the next block, if some blocks was merged (in add_to_free_list) (Hartmut Birr)
• Free or recycle the remaining path string after a call to ObFindObject (Hartmut Birr)
• Lock the pages always in MmProbeAndLockPages (Hartmut Birr)
• Locked the pages in MmCommitPagedPoolAddress, if it is necessary (Hartmut Birr)
• Marked a cache segment as page out in progress to prevent from recursive calls to MmPageOutPhysicalAddress; fixed bug 220 (Hartmut Birr)
• Protected the callback stack list with a spinlock (Hartmut Birr)
• Made it possible to allocate a pageop only if no other pageop for the given address exists (Hartmut Birr)
• Try to pageout a page only if no other access to the page exist (Hartmut Birr)
• Gave a free page only to the next waiting request (in MmReleasePageMemoryConsumer), if sufficient free pages are available (Hartmut Birr)
• Initialized the object tag to prevent the tag 0xcccccccc (Hartmut Birr)
• Removed dirty loading of symbol files from ExpInitializeExecutive (Hartmut Birr)
• Fixed the loading of symbol files (Hartmut Birr)
• Try to avoid crashing when dumping out a corrupted stack (David Welch)
• Avoid a crashing when trying to process an exception early in the boot process (David Welch)
• Use an event rather than a semaphore to wake up the thread that writes debug output to disk (David Welch)
• Added basic tracing, breakpoints and disassembly to the kernel debugger (David Welch)
• Added disassembler from gdb (David Welch)
• Record feature information from cpuid (David Welch)
• Fixed bug with recalling previous input (David Welch)
• Switch back to text mode when entering the debugger (David Welch)
• Fixed whole page allocations since the handle table code now relies on allocations being eight byte aligned (David Welch)
• Fix reading past the end of the pool block (David Welch)
• Fix key name size calculation bugs (Eric Kohl)
• Fix NtOpenThreadToken() and NtSetInformationThread() (Eric Kohl)
• Clean-up NtQueryInformationToken() (Eric Kohl)
• Fully implement RtlFormatCurrentUserKeyPath() (Eric Kohl)
• Fixed crashes that were cause by the changes to the service parameter table (Eric Kohl)
• Work on thread-awareness in gdbstub (Ge van Geldorp)
• Make IoGetDeviceInterfaces more compatible with the native version (Matthew Brace)
• Hardcode build number consistent with major/minor version (NVidia driver requires this) (Ge van Geldorp)
• Tell apps we're NT4 SP6, VB runtime will fail if we report SP0 (Ge van Geldorp)
• Allow GDB 6 to backtrace over a syscall (Ge van Geldorp)
• Disable pool validation since it slows down execution too much (Ge van Geldorp)
• Locale values are specified in hexadecimal numbers (Filip Navara)
• Corrected EiAllocatePool prototype (Filip Navara)
• Fixed RtlNtStatusToDosErrorNoTeb (Filip Navara)
• Removed the incorrect implementations of Device Interface functions (Filip Navara)
• Don't zero memory allocated by ExAllocatePool (Filip Navara)
• Fixed RtlFormatCurrentUserKeyPath and it's use (Filip Navara)
• Fill correctly all members of the returned device object in IoCreateDevice (Filip Navara)
• Don't bug check in loader when export isn't found, only report it and don't load the module (Filip Navara)
• If we know a module path while loading, use it for searching for the import modules (Filip Navara)
• Modified LdrpBuildModuleBaseName to not strip the extension from file name (Filip Navara)
• Call create process notify routines from NtCreateProcess (Filip Navara)
• Started PsSetLoadImageNotifyRoutine implementation, it just registers the callback, but doesn't call it (Filip Navara)
• Fixed querying of thread locale (Filip Navara)
• Implemented IoGetDriverObjectExtension and IoAllocateDriverObjectExtension (Filip Navara)
• Don't load PnP drivers if they're disabled (Filip Navara)
• Save pointer to PnP tree device node in device object's DeviceObjectExtension (Filip Navara)
• Add function IopGetDeviceNode for getting device node from device object pointer (Filip Navara)
• Rewritten IoGetDeviceProperty to use values that are in device node instead of sending Irps (Filip Navara)
• Lower IRQL in error case of IoAllocateDriverObjectExtension (Filip Navara)
• Support for upper level filter drivers (Filip Navara)
• Rewritten some driver loading functions to get higher control of the driver loading and initialization process, fixes bug #263 (Filip Navara)
• Added support for lower level filter drivers (Filip Navara)
• Minor cleanup and fixed few memory leaks on driver unload (Filip Navara)
• Fixed a minor bug in IopLoadServiceModule that caused crashes for disabled drivers (Filip Navara)
• Don't bugcheck if FDO wasn't attached (Filip Navara)
• Fixed cygwin fork section map problem, this fixes map_dup_inherit (Art Yerkes, David Welch)
• MmMapLockedPages patch (Anich Gregor)
• Initialize LPC-related fields in ETHREAD (Emanuele Aliberti)
• Finish off NtDuplicateToken (Jason Filby)

ChangeLog-0.2.3

• Added two new Cache Manager files added for the stubs (Alex Ionescu)
• Fixed memory corruption in IopInitializeBuiltinDriver (Filip Navara)
• Various bugfixes to IoQueryDeviceDescription and friends. The floppy driver now loads and finds the drive properly (Vizzini)
• Use raw size for image sections if virtual size isn't specified (Nathan Lineback)
• The root bus driver should return an empty resource list on IRP_MN_QUERY_RESOURCES (Eric Kohl)
• Fixed prototypes of NtAddAtom, NtFindAtom, NtProtectVirtualMemory and *KeQueryInterruptTime (Filip Navara)
• Fixed list traversing in MmAlterRegion to correctly handle Length that is greater than real memory area size (Filip Navara)
• Added stubs for the Cache Manager by Alex Ionescu (Steven Edwards)
• Callbacks implementation (Alex Ionescu)
• Clean up return val checking of some mdl calls (Vizzini)
• Store page numbers instead of physical address's within mdls (Hartmut Birr)
• Allocate memory for mdl's for paging io from stack instead of the non paged pool (Hartmut Birr)
• Exchanged source and target in WRITE_REGISTER_BUFFER_xxx (Hartmut Birr)
• Retrieve Hardware IDs and Compatible IDs from the bus driver and attach them to the device node (Eric Kohl)
• Added a check for a waitable objects in NtWaitForSingleObject and *NtWaitForMultipleObjects (Hartmut Birr)
• Fixed the start offset of a partition within an extended partition (in xHalIoWritePartitionTable) (Hartmut Birr)
• Fixed some NULL-terminating issues that caused the 'videoprt.sys???????????????' module name problem (Filip Navara)
• Fixed a wrong address in MmAlterViewAttributes which possible does cause a crash if the region is longer than one page (Hartmut Birr)
• Implementation of IoQueryDeviceDescription. Patch by Alex Ionescu (Filip Navara)
• Write the system boot device and start options to registry, also create the MiniNT registry key if needed (Filip Navara)
• Fixed the searching for boot load drivers. This solves the pci driver loading problem (Hartmut Birr)
• Set CurrentThread's u1.ExitTime to exit time in PsTerminateCurrentThread. Patch by Alex Ionescu (Filip Navara)
• Return success for SystemFileCacheInformation requests to NtQuerySystemInformation, so we can see some information in the Task Manager (Filip Navara)
• ReactOS-specific debugging functions KeRosDumpStackFrames and KeRosPrintAddress (Royce Mitchel III)
• The last parameter of NtReadVirtualMemory should be optional (Filip Navara)
• Removed an obsolete call to ExAllocatePool in CHECKPOINT (Hartmut Birr)
• Do not immediately write the zeroed region to the disk for a cached file (Hartmut Birr)
• Fixed a problem, which does occur if the cluster size is lower than the segment size (Hartmut Birr)
• Implement kernel-mode range lists (Eric Kohl)
• Install target must not rebuild executables (Eric Kohl)
• Fixed the implementation of MmMapIoSpace (Hartmut Birr)
• Fixed the implementation of IoBuildPartialMdl (Hartmut Birr)
• Set Mdl's Process in MmMapLockedPages to current process and back to NULL in MmUnmapLockedPages (Filip Navara)
• Implement SeQueryAuthenticationIdToken() (Eric Kohl)
• Add audit function stubs (Eric Kohl)
• Do not change the mapping count of a page if the physical address falls in the range of valid physical memory (in MmMapIoSpace and MmUnmapIoSpace) (Hartmut Birr)
• Add some security function stubs (Eric Kohl)
• Use bugcheck macros where appropriate so users have a better idea of why they crashed (Royce Mitchel III)
• Implement multi-block bins. This removes all existing size limits within the registry (Eric Kohl)
• Janitorial work (Eric Kohl)
• Put the event from file object as user event into the irp in IopCloseFile and IopDeleteFile (Hartmut Birr)
• Don't assign arc names to removable media drives like zip drives (Hartmut Birr)
• Don't read the disk informations at boot time from removable medias like zip drives (Hartmut Birr)
• Added Spinlock in ObpGetHandleCountbyHandleTable (Jim Tabor)
• Fix recognition of CALL instruction. Spotted by Anich Gregor (Filip Navara)
• Return reasonably correct result querying a null memory area. Still a TODO left (Mike Nordell)
• Change bugcheck parameter to easily find out which SESSION5_INITIALIZATION_FAILED bugcheck occurred (Ge van Geldorp)
• Make MmQuerySectionView tell how many bytes it actually did set. Fixes VirtualQuery (Mike Nordell)
• MmQuerySectionView now returns correct AllocationBase (Hartmut Birr, Mike Nordell)
• Proper way for counting process handles (Jim Tabor)
• Add missing io performance counters (Eric Kohl)
• SystemPerformanceInformation reads io counters (Eric Kohl)
• Call the DriverStartIo routine at DISPATCH_LEVEL in IoStartPacket (Hartmut Birr)
• Set the offset for a physical page in MmGetPhysicalAddress (Hartmut Birr)
• Dereference the idle process in some of the NtQuerySystemInformation functions (Hartmut Birr)
• Stop kernel crashing on thread termination (Mike Nordell)
• Fixed my mistake in SystemProcessorInformation (Jim Tabor)
• Fixed SystemProcessorInformation (Jim Tabor)
• Set 386 as default cpu type (Jim Tabor)
• Implementation of system performance auditing hax (Jim Tabor)
• Improved Passive Level kernel and user time counters (Jim Tabor)
• Fix Kernel User Timer and added ProcessTimes to QueryInformatinProcess (Jim Tabor)
• Fix Kernel User Timer (Jim Tabor)
• Add BasePriorty to ProcessBasicInformaion (Jim Tabor)
• NtGetTickCount implementation (Jim Tabor, Filip Navara)
• Implementation of system performance auditing hax (Jim Tabor)
• Improved Passive Level kernel and user time counters (Jim Tabor)
• Fix Kernel User Timer and added ProcessTimes to QueryInformatinProcess (Jim Tabor)
• Fix Kernel User Timer (Jim Tabor)
• Add BasePriorty to ProcessBasicInformaion (Jim Tabor)
• Make mdl impl. more windows compliant (Gunnar Dalsnes)
• Make mdl usage/impl. more windows compliant (Gunnar Dalsnes)
• Filip Navara NtGetTickCount implementation (Jim Tabor)
• Implemented new Ros exclusive function SystemFullMemoryInformation (Jim Tabor)
• DBG/KD Types and Prototypes Added (Alex Ionescu)
• Fixed KeRaiseUserException to return old EIP (Alex Ionescu)
• Added DBG, FSRTL, Kd, Ldr, Lpc, Ex and Io Stubs (Alex Ionescu)