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 designated by the instruction;
• 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.

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 designated by the instruction;
• 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.