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 PspLdtInitialize function

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 🢂 PspLdtInitialize

   Description

Initialises the Local Descriptor Table (LDT) during the early boot phase (Phase 0).

   Internals & Parameters

VOID
NTAPI
PspLdtInitialize(VOID)
      

The function takes no arguments. What does it simply do is to initialise a mutant object specifically in the context of the LDT realm. Internally such mutant object (or mutex) is named as LdtMutex. The initialisation of such LDT mutex object is done at the early boot phase of Windows, in PspInitPhase0 function which is responsible for Process Manager kernel subsystem initialisation.

   Called Functions

         - KeInitializeMutex