Saving and restoring machine state between multiple executions of an instruction

A computer system for facilitating processing within a computing environment, the computer system comprising:

• a memory;
• and
• a processor in communication with the memory, wherein the computer system is configured to perform a method comprising:
• determining that processing of an operation of an instruction executing on the processor has been interrupted prior to completion;
• extracting metadata of the processor, based on determining that the processing of the operation has been interrupted, the metadata being current metadata of the processor;
• Storing the metadata in a location;
• and
• using the metadata stored in the location in re-executing the instruction to resume forward processing of the instruction from where the instruction was interrupted, wherein the using the metadata in re-executing the instruction comprises:
• re-executing the instruction to resume processing;
• extracting the metadata from the location;
• and
• loading the metadata extracted from the location into one or more select locations of the processor, wherein the metadata is provided to the processor absent repeating one or more tasks to produce the metadata.

A computer-implemented method of facilitating processing within a computing environment, the computer-implemented method comprising:

• determining that processing of an operation of an instruction executing on a processor has been interrupted prior to completion;
• extracting metadata of the processor, based on determining that the processing of the operation has been interrupted;
• the metadata being current metadata of the processor;
• storing the metadata in a location;
• and
• using the metadata stored in the location in re-executing the instruction to resume forward processing of the instruction from where the instruction was interrupted, wherein the using the metadata in re-executing the instruction comprises:
• re-executing the instruction to resume processing;
• extracting the metadata from the location;
• and
• loading the metadata extracted from the location into one or more select locations of the processor, wherein the metadata is provided to the processor absent repeating one or more tasks to produce the metadata.