Kernel Execution Environment Functions

Kernel Execution Environment

Available on OS/2 Warp 4.5 and above.
Available on eCS 1.0 and above.

• KernThunkStackTo16
• KernThunkStackTo32
• KernSerialize16BitDD
• KernUnserialize16BitDD
• KernCopyIn
• KernCopyOut
• KernVMAlloc
• KernVMFree
• KernVMLock
• KernVMUnlock
• KernLinToPageList
• KernVMSetMem
• KernSelToFlat
• KernDynamicAPI
• KernRASSysTrace
• KernPerfSysTrace

Hooks

• KernArmHook
• KernAllocateContextHook

Thread locking

• KernBlock
• KernWakeup

Spin lock

• KernAllocSpinLock
• KernFreeSpinLock
• KernAcquireSpinLock
• KernReleaseSpinLock

Mutex lock

• KernAllocMutexLock
• KernFreeMutexLock

Shared mutex lock

• KernRequestSharedMutex
• KernReleaseSharedMutex
• KernTryRequestSharedMutex

Exclusive mutex lock

• KernRequestExclusiveMutex
• KernReleaseExclusiveMutex
• KernTryRequestExclusiveMutex

File management

• KernLockFile
• KernUnLockFile
• KernGetFileSize
• KernTestFileCache
• KernReadFileAt
• KernReadFileAtCache
• KernReturnFileCache

Unicode support

• KernCreateUconvObject
• KernStrFromUcs
• KernStrToUcs

External References

• Portable Systems Group - NT OS/2 Kernel Specification by David N. Cutler, Bryan M. Willman.