1. A method, comprising: accessing a data structure maintained by an operating system for an executing application; saving information in the accessed data structure with checkpoint information for the application; initiating an operation to restore the application from the checkpoint information; generating a restored data structure to include the saved information in the accessed data structure saved in the checkpoint information in response to restoring the application; and modifying an initialization routine of the application to bypass initializing the data structure as part of the application initialization routine to restore the application.