Interlocked Operations
Interlocked operations isn't a very large topic, and the MSDN article explains the Interlocked Operations topic comprehensively. Here's the link - Interlocked Operations
Executive Resources
Executive Resources are a another form of synchronization, and in fact are not actually dispatcher objects like Mutexes and Semaphores, they are data structures allocated with non-paged pool. They are only available to Kernel-Mode, and can provide exclusive access and shared read access. Normal Kernel-Mode APC delivery must be disabled, when you are wishing to acquire a Executive Resource.
Executive Resources data structure can be seen in WinDbg:
You can use the !locks extension to list all executive resources which are currently owned.
So, let's continue with Executive Resources; any threads wishing to acquire the resource for shared read access must wait for a semaphore which is associated with the resource, in order to acquire it. On the other hand, any threads wishing to acquire the resource for exclusive access must wait upon a event object associated with the resource.
In regards, to semaphores associated with resources, usually the semaphore will have a unlimited count, since this enables all the threads waiting to woken up simultaneously and gain access, once the resource has become available. With a thread waiting for exclusive access, it waits upon a synchronization event object, since only one waiting thread will be woken up.
As a side note, the Contention Count field indicates the number of times a thread has attempted to access the resource, and told to wait because another thread is still using it.
Executive Resources can be used at IRQL Levels less than DISPATCH_LEVEL (Level 2).
More Information -
ERESOURCEs Close Cousin: Implementing Reader/Writer Locks in User-Mode
Help on analyzing the ERESOURCE status
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