The original syscall only used to return errno to indicate if cmpxchg succeeded. It was not returning the "previous" value which typical cmpxchg callers are interested in to build their slowpaths or retry loops. Given user preemption in syscall return path etc, it is not wise to check this in userspace afterwards, but should be what kernel actually observed in the syscall. So change the syscall interface to always return the previous value and additionally set Z flag to indicate whether operation succeeded or not (just like ARM implementation when they used to have this syscall) The flag approach avoids having to put_user errno which is nice given the use case for this syscall cares mostly about the "previous" value. Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@synopsys.com>