create_image(9)

create_image(9) — Kernel API Manual 💅

💖 NAME 💖

create_image — create a hibernation image. 🖼️😴

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

int create_image (int platform_mode );

🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

• platform_mode — whether or not to use the platform driver. That’s the whole vibe check for this arg, bestie. 🫶

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

Okay so create_image() is out here doing the hibernation-image thing, and it’s giving very main-character energy. It executes the device drivers’ "late" and "noirq" freeze callbacks, creates a hibernation image, and then runs the drivers’ "noirq" and "early" thaw callbacks. 🔥

And then — plot twist — control reappears in this routine after the subsequent restore. Like, hello again, bestie. 💫

👑 SEE ALSO 👑

• Kernel file ./kernel/power/hibernate.c
• pm_hibernation_mode_is_suspend(9)
• hibernation_set_ops(9)
• platform_begin(9)
• platform_end(9)
• platform_pre_snapshot(9)
• platform_leave(9)
• platform_finish(9)
• platform_pre_restore(9)
• platform_restore_cleanup(9)
• platform_recover(9)
• swsusp_show_speed(9)
• hibernation_snapshot(9)
• resume_target_kernel(9)
• hibernation_restore(9)
• hibernation_platform_enter(9)
• power_down(9)
• hibernate(9)
• hibernate_quiet_exec(9)
• software_resume_initcall(9)

That’s the whole page, periodt. 🫶 This cutie comes from ./kernel/power and is dated October 2026. Mwah 💋