platform_pre_restore(9)

🎀 NAME 🎀

okay so bestie, this is platform_pre_restore(9) from the Kernel API Manual 💖, and it's literally here to prepare for hibernate image restoration. platform_pre_restore — prepare for hibernate image restoration. periodt ✨

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

int platform_pre_restore (int platform_mode );

🫶 ARGUMENTS 🫶

• platform_mode — tells ya whether or not to use the platform driver. 🎚️

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

So the vibe is: use the platform driver to prepare the system for resume from a hibernation image. 🦋

⚠️ Important, bestie: if the restore fails after this function has been called, platform_restore_cleanup must be called. Not optional. 💅

🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

the whole cross-ref friend group:

• 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_restore_cleanup(9)
• platform_recover(9)
• swsusp_show_speed(9)
• create_image(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)

mwah 💋 xoxo — source/version: ./kernel/power · date: October 2026 · page: platform_pre_restore(9) 🌈