clean up and standardize types across the codebase, unify atomic operations, improve UTF-8 handling throughout the system, remove obsolete input and named queue interfaces, redesign process preparation and creation, tighten IPC and service boundaries, improve error handling and reliability, minor documentation cleanup, fix doom surfaces, fix panic in ini parsing.

code/kernel/ke_dpc.c

@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
 // Deferred procedure call infrastructure. This file owns DPC queuing and execution outside hard IRQ context.
 
+#include <ntlite/atomic.h>
+#include <stdbool.h>
 #include <kernel/ke_dpc.h>
 #include <kernel/ke_list.h>
 #include <kernel/ke_irql.h>
@@ -8,8 +10,8 @@
 
 static LIST_ENTRY    gDpcQueue;
 static SPINLOCK      gDpcLock;
-static volatile long gDpcInitialized = 0;
-static volatile long gDpcActive      = 0;
+static volatile int32_t gDpcInitialized = 0;
+static volatile int32_t gDpcActive      = 0;
 
 // Initializes dpc System.
 void KeInitializeDpcSystem(void) {
@@ -52,7 +54,7 @@ __declspec(dllexport) bool KeInsertQueueDpc(KDPC* dpc,
 
     // Coalesce repeated inserts of the same KDPC. The first insert owns the
     // argument pair until the DPC is popped by the dispatcher.
-    if (_InterlockedCompareExchange(&dpc->Inserted, 1, 0) != 0)
+    if (NtlAtomicCompareExchange32(&dpc->Inserted, 1, 0) != 0)
         return false;
 
     dpc->SystemArgument1 = systemArgument1;
@@ -74,7 +76,7 @@ void KiDrainDpcQueue(void) {
     if (KeGetCurrentIrql() > DISPATCH_LEVEL)
         return;
 
-    if (_InterlockedCompareExchange(&gDpcActive, 1, 0) != 0)
+    if (NtlAtomicCompareExchange32(&gDpcActive, 1, 0) != 0)
         return;
 
     KIRQL oldIrql = KeGetCurrentIrql();