LOCK(9) Kernel Developer's Manual LOCK(9)

lock, simple_lock_init, simple_lock, simple_lock_try, simple_unlock, simple_lock_freecheck, simple_lock_dump, lockinit, lockmgr, lockstatus, lockmgr_printinfo, spinlockinit, spinlockmgr
kernel lock functions

These interfaces have been obsoleted and removed from the system.

Please see the condvar(9), mutex(9), and rwlock(9) manual pages for information on kernel synchronisation primitives.

condvar(9), mutex(9), rwlock(9)

The kernel locking API first appeared in 4.4BSD-lite2, and was replaced in NetBSD 5.0.
January 30, 2008 NetBSD 9.0