Book description
Delve inside Windows architecture and internals—and see how core components work behind the scenes. Led by three renowned internals experts, this classic guide is fully updated for Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2—and now presents its coverage in two volumes.
As always, you get critical insider perspectives on how Windows operates. And through hands-on experiments, you’ll experience its internal behavior firsthand—knowledge you can apply to improve application design, debugging, system performance, and support.
In Part 2, you’ll examine:
Core subsystems for I/O, storage, memory management, cache manager, and file systems
Startup and shutdown processes
Crash-dump analysis, including troubleshooting tools and techniques
Table of contents
- Windows® Internals, Sixth Edition, Part 2
- Dedication
- Introduction
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8. I/O System
- I/O System Components
- Device Drivers
- I/O Processing
- Kernel-Mode Driver Framework (KMDF)
- User-Mode Driver Framework (UMDF)
- The Plug and Play (PnP) Manager
- The Power Manager
- Conclusion
- 9. Storage Management
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10. Memory Management
- Introduction to the Memory Manager
- Services Provided by the Memory Manager
- Kernel-Mode Heaps (System Memory Pools)
- Heap Manager
- Virtual Address Space Layouts
- Address Translation
- Page Fault Handling
- Stacks
- Virtual Address Descriptors
- NUMA
- Section Objects
- Driver Verifier
- Page Frame Number Database
- Physical Memory Limits
- Working Sets
- Proactive Memory Management (Superfetch)
- Conclusion
- 11. Cache Manager
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12. File Systems
- Windows File System Formats
- File System Driver Architecture
- Troubleshooting File System Problems
- Common Log File System
- NTFS Design Goals and Features
- NTFS File System Driver
- NTFS On-Disk Structure
- NTFS Recovery Support
- Encrypting File System Security
- Conclusion
- 13. Startup and Shutdown
- 14. Crash Dump Analysis
- A. Contents of Windows Internals, Sixth Edition, Part 1
- Index
- About the Authors
- Copyright
Product information
- Title: Windows® Internals, Sixth Edition, Part 2
- Author(s):
- Release date: September 2012
- Publisher(s): Microsoft Press
- ISBN: 9780735677265
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