IoCompletion

The IoCompletion routine completes the processing of I/O operations.

NTSTATUS
  IoCompletion(
    IN PDEVICE_OBJECT  DeviceObject,
    IN PIRP  Irp,
    IN PVOID  Context
    );

Parameters

DeviceObject

Caller-supplied pointer to a DEVICE_OBJECT structure. This is the device object for the target device, previously created by the driver's AddDevice routine.

Irp

Caller-supplied pointer to an IRP structure that describes the I/O operation.

Context

Caller-supplied pointer to driver-specific context information, previously supplied when calling IoSetCompletionRoutine, or IoSetCompletionRoutineEx. Context information must be stored in nonpaged memory, since an IoCompletion routine can be called at DISPATCH_LEVEL (see the following Comments section).

Return Value

If the IoCompletion routine determines that additional processing is required for the IRP, it must return STATUS_MORE_PROCESSING_REQUIRED. For more information, see the following Comments section. Otherwise it should return STATUS_SUCCESS. (The I/O Manager only checks for the presence or absence of STATUS_MORE_PROCESSING_REQUIRED.)

Comments

A driver's IoCompletion routine executes in an arbitrary thread or DPC context, and at an IRQL that is less than or equal to DISPATCH_LEVEL. Because code written to execute at DISPATCH_LEVEL will also execute at lower levels, IoCompletion routines should be designed for execution at DISPATCH_LEVEL. However, because these routines are not guaranteed to run at DISPATCH_LEVEL, they must not call system routines that actually require execution at DISPATCH_LEVEL. (For more information about IRQLs, see Managing Hardware Priorities.)

To register an IoCompletion routine for a specific IRP, a driver must call IoSetCompletionRoutine or IoSetCompletionRoutineEx, which stores the IoCompletion routine's address in the next-lower driver's I/O stack location. (Thus, a lowest-level driver cannot register an IoCompletion routine.) A driver typically calls IoSetCompletionRoutine or IoSetCompletionRoutineEx from one of its dispatch routines, each time an IRP is received. Most drivers, including all PnP drivers, can use IoSetCompletionRoutine to register their IoCompletion routine. Non-PnP drivers that may be unloaded before their IoCompletion routine executes should use IoSetCompletionRoutineEx instead.

When any driver completes an IRP, it calls IoCompleteRequest, which in turn calls the IoCompletion routine of each higher-level driver, from the next-highest to the highest, until all higher IoCompletion routines have been called or until one routine returns STATUS_MORE_PROCESSING_REQUIRED.

If an IoCompletion routine returns STATUS_MORE_PROCESSING_REQUIRED, the lower driver's call to IoCompleteRequest immediately returns. In this case, a higher-level driver will have to call IoCompleteRequest to complete the IRP.

For more information about implementing IoCompletion routines, see Completing IRPs.