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NAME

       SPANK - Slurm Plug-in Architecture for Node and job (K)control

DESCRIPTION

       This  manual briefly describes the capabilities of the Slurm Plug-in architecture for Node
       and  job  Kontrol  (SPANK)  as  well  as  the  SPANK  configuration  file:  (By   default:
       plugstack.conf.)

       SPANK  provides  a  very  generic  interface  for  stackable plug-ins which may be used to
       dynamically modify the job launch code in Slurm. SPANK plugins may be built without access
       to  Slurm  source  code.  They  need only be compiled against Slurm's spank.h header file,
       added to the SPANK config file plugstack.conf, and they will be loaded at  runtime  during
       the  next  job  launch.  Thus,  the SPANK infrastructure provides administrators and other
       developers a low cost, low effort ability to dynamically modify the  runtime  behavior  of
       Slurm job launch.

       Note:  SPANK  plugins using the Slurm APIs need to be recompiled when upgrading Slurm to a
       new major release.

SPANK PLUGINS

       SPANK plugins are loaded in up to five separate contexts during a Slurm job. Briefly,  the
       five contexts are:

       local   In  local  context,  the  plugin  is  loaded  by srun. (i.e. the "local" part of a
               parallel job).

       remote  In remote context, the plugin is loaded by slurmstepd. (i.e. the "remote" part  of
               a parallel job).

       allocator
               In  allocator context, the plugin is loaded in one of the job allocation utilities
               sbatch or salloc.

       slurmd In slurmd context, the plugin is loaded in the
              slurmd daemon itself. Note: Plugins loaded in slurmd context persist for the entire
              time  slurmd  is  running,  so  if configuration is changed or plugins are updated,
              slurmd must be restarted for the changes to take effect.

       job_script
              In the job_script context, plugins are loaded in the context of the job  prolog  or
              epilog.  Note:  Plugins  are  loaded  in  job_script context on each run on the job
              prolog or epilog, in a separate address space from plugins in slurmd context.  This
              means  there  is  no  state shared between this context and other contexts, or even
              between one call to slurm_spank_job_prolog or slurm_spank_job_epilog and subsequent
              calls.

       In  local  context,  only the init, exit, init_post_opt, and local_user_init functions are
       called. In allocator context, only the init, exit, and init_post_opt functions are called.
       Similarly,  in  slurmd context, only the slurmd_init and slurmd_exit callbacks are active,
       and in the job_script context, only the job_prolog  and  job_epilog  callbacks  are  used.
       Plugins  may  query  the  context  in  which  they  are running with the spank_context and
       spank_remote functions defined in <slurm/spank.h>.

       SPANK plugins may be called from multiple points during the Slurm job launch. A plugin may
       define the following functions:

       slurm_spank_init
         Called  just after plugins are loaded. In remote context, this is just after job step is
         initialized. This function is called before any plugin option processing. This  function
         is not called in slurmd context.

       slurm_spank_slurmd_init
         Called in slurmd just after the daemon is started.

       slurm_spank_job_prolog
         Called at the same time as the job prolog.

       slurm_spank_init_post_opt
         Called  at  the same point as slurm_spank_init, but after all user options to the plugin
         have been processed. The reason that the init and init_post_opt callbacks are  separated
         is  so  that  plugins can process system-wide options specified in plugstack.conf in the
         init  callback,  then  process  user  options,  and  finally   take   some   action   in
         slurm_spank_init_post_opt if necessary.

       slurm_spank_local_user_init
         Called  in  local  (srun)  context  only after all options have been processed.  This is
         called after the job ID and step IDs are available.  This  happens  in  srun  after  the
         allocation is made, but before tasks are launched.

       slurm_spank_user_init
         Called after privileges are temporarily dropped. (remote context only)

       slurm_spank_task_init_privileged
         Called  for  each  task just after fork, but before all elevated privileges are dropped.
         (remote context only)

       slurm_spank_task_init
         Called for each task just before execve (2). (remote context only)

       slurm_spank_task_post_fork
         Called for each task from parent process after fork (2) is complete.  Due  to  the  fact
         that  slurmd  does not exec any tasks until all tasks have completed fork (2), this call
         is guaranteed to run before the user task is executed. (remote context only)

       slurm_spank_task_exit
         Called for each task as its exit status is collected by Slurm.  (remote context only)

       slurm_spank_exit
         Called once just before slurmstepd exits in remote context.  In  local  context,  called
         before srun exits.

       slurm_spank_job_epilog
         Called at the same time as the job epilog.

       slurm_spank_slurmd_exit
         Called in slurmd when the daemon is shut down.

       All of these functions have the same prototype, for example:

          int slurm_spank_init (spank_t spank, int ac, char *argv[])

       Where  spank  is the SPANK handle which must be passed back to Slurm when the plugin calls
       functions like spank_get_item and spank_getenv. Configured  arguments  (See  CONFIGURATION
       below) are passed in the argument vector argv with argument count ac.

       SPANK  plugins can query the current list of supported slurm_spank symbols to determine if
       the current version supports a given plugin hook.  This may be useful because the list  of
       plugin  symbols may grow in the future. The query is done using the spank_symbol_supported
       function, which has the following prototype:

           int spank_symbol_supported (const char *sym);

       The return value is 1 if the symbol is supported, 0 if not.

       SPANK plugins do not have direct access  to  internally  defined  Slurm  data  structures.
       Instead,  information about the currently executing job is obtained via the spank_get_item
       function call.

         spank_err_t spank_get_item (spank_t spank, spank_item_t item, ...);

       The spank_get_item call must be passed the current  SPANK  handle  as  well  as  the  item
       requested,  which  is  defined  by  the  passed spank_item_t. A variable number of pointer
       arguments are also passed, depending on which item was requested by the plugin. A list  of
       the valid values for item is kept in the spank.h header file. Some examples are:

       S_JOB_UID
         User id for running job. (uid_t *) is third arg of spank_get_item

       S_JOB_STEPID
         Job step id for running job. (uint32_t *) is third arg of spank_get_item.

       S_TASK_EXIT_STATUS
         Exit  status  for  exited task. Only valid from slurm_spank_task_exit.  (int *) is third
         arg of spank_get_item.

       S_JOB_ARGV
         Complete job command line. Third and fourth args to  spank_get_item  are  (int  *,  char
         ***).

       See spank.h for more details, and EXAMPLES below for an example of spank_get_item usage.

       SPANK  functions in the local and allocator environment should use the getenv, setenv, and
       unsetenv functions to view and modify the  job's  environment.   SPANK  functions  in  the
       remote environment should use the spank_getenv, spank_setenv, and spank_unsetenv functions
       to view and modify the job's environment. spank_getenv searches the job's environment  for
       the environment variable var and copies the current value into a buffer buf of length len.
       spank_setenv allows  a  SPANK  plugin  to  set  or  overwrite  a  variable  in  the  job's
       environment,  and  spank_unsetenv unsets an environment variable in the job's environment.
       The prototypes are:

        spank_err_t spank_getenv (spank_t spank, const char *var,
                            char *buf, int len);
        spank_err_t spank_setenv (spank_t spank, const char *var,
                            const char *val, int overwrite);
        spank_err_t spank_unsetenv (spank_t spank, const char *var);

       These are only necessary in remote context since modifications  of  the  standard  process
       environment using setenv (3), getenv (3), and unsetenv (3) may be used in local context.

       Functions  are  also  available  from  within  the  SPANK plugins to establish environment
       variables to be exported to the Slurm PrologSlurmctld, Prolog, Epilog and  EpilogSlurmctld
       programs  (the  so-called  job  control  environment).   The name of environment variables
       established by these calls will be prepended with the string SPANK_ in order to avoid  any
       security  implications  of  arbitrary  environment  variable  control. (After all, the job
       control scripts do run as root or the Slurm user.).

       These functions are available from local context only.

         spank_err_t spank_job_control_getenv(spank_t spank, const char *var,
                              char *buf, int len);
         spank_err_t spank_job_control_setenv(spank_t spank, const char *var,
                              const char *val, int overwrite);
         spank_err_t spank_job_control_unsetenv(spank_t spank, const char *var);

       See spank.h for more information, and EXAMPLES  below  for  an  example  for  spank_getenv
       usage.

       Many  of  the  described  SPANK  functions  available  to  plugins  return  errors via the
       spank_err_t error type. On success, the return value will be set to ESPANK_SUCCESS,  while
       on  failure,  the  return  value  will  be  set  to  one  of  many error values defined in
       slurm/spank.h. The SPANK interface provides a simple function

         const char * spank_strerror(spank_err_t err);

       which may be used to translate a spank_err_t value into its string representation.

SPANK OPTIONS

       SPANK plugins also have an interface through which they may define and implement extra job
       options.  These  options  are  made  available  to the user through Slurm commands such as
       srun(1), salloc(1), and sbatch(1). if the option is specified by the user,  its  value  is
       forwarded  and  registered  with  the  plugin in slurmd when the job is run.  In this way,
       SPANK plugins may dynamically provide new options and functionality to Slurm.

       Each option registered by a plugin to Slurm takes the form of a struct spank_option  which
       is declared in <slurm/spank.h> as

          struct spank_option {
             char *         name;
             char *         arginfo;
             char *         usage;
             int            has_arg;
             int            val;
             spank_opt_cb_f cb;
          };

       Where

       name   is  the name of the option. Its length is limited to SPANK_OPTION_MAXLEN defined in
              <slurm/spank.h>.

       arginfo
              is a description of the argument  to  the  option,  if  the  option  does  take  an
              argument.

       usage  is a short description of the option suitable for --help output.

       has_arg
              0  if  option takes no argument, 1 if option takes an argument, and 2 if the option
              takes an optional argument. (See getopt_long (3)).

       val    A plugin-local value to return to the option callback function.

       cb     A callback function that is invoked when  the  plugin  option  is  registered  with
              Slurm. spank_opt_cb_f is typedef'd in <slurm/spank.h> as

                typedef int (*spank_opt_cb_f) (int val, const char *optarg,
                                         int remote);

              Where  val  is the value of the val field in the spank_option struct, optarg is the
              supplied argument if applicable, and remote is 0 if the function  is  being  called
              from the "local" host (e.g. srun) or 1 from the "remote" host (slurmd).

       Plugin options may be registered with Slurm using the spank_option_register function. This
       function is only valid  when  called  from  the  plugin's  slurm_spank_init  handler,  and
       registers one option at a time. The prototype is

          spank_err_t spank_option_register (spank_t sp,
                    struct spank_option *opt);

       This  function  will  return  ESPANK_SUCCESS  on  successful registration of an option, or
       ESPANK_BAD_ARG for errors including invalid spank_t handle, or when the  function  is  not
       called  from  the  slurm_spank_init  function.  All options need to be registered from all
       contexts in which they will be used. For instance, if an option  is  only  used  in  local
       (srun) and remote (slurmd) contexts, then spank_option_register should only be called from
       within those contexts. For example:

          if (spank_context() != S_CTX_ALLOCATOR)
             spank_option_register (sp, opt);

       If, however, the option is used in all contexts, the  spank_option_register  needs  to  be
       called everywhere.

       In addition to spank_option_register, plugins may also export options to Slurm by defining
       a table of struct spank_option with the symbol name spank_options. This  method,  however,
       is  not  supported  for  use  with  sbatch and salloc (allocator context), thus the use of
       spank_option_register is preferred. When using the spank_options table, the final  element
       in  the  array  must  be filled with zeros. A SPANK_OPTIONS_TABLE_END macro is provided in
       <slurm/spank.h> for this purpose.

       When an option is provided by the user on the local side, Slurm  will  immediately  invoke
       the  option's  callback  with  remote=0.  This  is meant for the plugin to do local sanity
       checking of the option before the value is sent to the remote side during job  launch.  If
       the  argument  the user specified is invalid, the plugin should issue an error and issue a
       non-zero return code from the callback.

       On the remote side, options and their arguments are registered just  after  SPANK  plugins
       are  loaded  and  before  the  spank_init handler is called. This allows plugins to modify
       behavior of all plugin functionality based on the value of  user-provided  options.   (See
       EXAMPLES below for a plugin that registers an option with Slurm).

       As  an  alternative  to use of an option callback and global variable, plugins can use the
       spank_option_getopt option to check for supplied options  after  option  processing.  This
       function has the prototype:

          spank_err_t spank_option_getopt(spank_t sp,
              struct spank_option *opt, char **optargp);

       This function returns ESPANK_SUCCESS if the option defined in the
       struct spank_option opt has been used by the user. If optargp
       is non-NULL then it is set to any option argument passed (if the option
       takes an argument). The use of this method is required to process
       options in job_script context (slurm_spank_job_prolog and
       slurm_spank_job_epilog).

CONFIGURATION

       The default SPANK plug-in stack configuration file is plugstack.conf in the same directory
       as  slurm.conf(5),  though  this  may  be  changed  via   the   Slurm   config   parameter
       PlugStackConfig.  Normally the plugstack.conf file should be identical on all nodes of the
       cluster.  The config file lists SPANK plugins, one per line, along with whether the plugin
       is  required or optional, and any global arguments that are to be passed to the plugin for
       runtime configuration.  Comments are preceded with '#' and extend to the end of the  line.
       If the configuration file is missing or empty, it will simply be ignored.

       The format of each non-comment line in the configuration file is:

         required/optional   plugin   arguments

        For example:

         optional /usr/lib/slurm/test.so

       Tells  slurmd  to  load  the  plugin  test.so  passing no arguments.  If a SPANK plugin is
       required, then failure of any of the plugin's functions will cause slurmd to terminate the
       job, while optional plugins only cause a warning.

       If  a  fully-qualified  path  is not specified for a plugin, then the currently configured
       PluginDir in slurm.conf(5) is searched.

       SPANK plugins are stackable, meaning that more than one plugin  may  be  placed  into  the
       config  file.  The  plugins  will  simply  be  called  in  order, one after the other, and
       appropriate action taken on failure given that state of the plugin's optional flag.

       Additional config files or directories of config files may be included  in  plugstack.conf
       with  the  include  keyword.  The include keyword must appear on its own line, and takes a
       glob as its parameter, so multiple files may  be  included  from  one  include  line.  For
       example,    the    following    syntax    will    load    all    config   files   in   the
       /etc/slurm/plugstack.conf.d directory, in local collation order:

         include /etc/slurm/plugstack.conf.d/*

       which might be considered a more flexible method for building up a spank plugin stack.

       The SPANK config file is re-read on each job launch, so editing the config file  will  not
       affect  running  jobs. However care should be taken so that a partially edited config file
       is not read by a launching job.

EXAMPLES

       Simple SPANK config file:

       #
       # SPANK config file
       #
       # required?       plugin                     args
       #
       optional          renice.so                  min_prio=-10
       required          /usr/lib/slurm/test.so

       The following is a simple SPANK plugin to modify the nice value of job tasks. This  plugin
       adds  a  --renice=[prio]  option  to  srun  which users can use to set the priority of all
       remote tasks. Priority may also be specified via a SLURM_RENICE  environment  variable.  A
       minimum  priority  may  be  established  via a "min_prio" parameter in plugstack.conf (See
       above for example).

       /*
        *   To compile:
        *    gcc -shared -o renice.so renice.c
        *
        */
       #include <sys/types.h>
       #include <stdio.h>
       #include <stdlib.h>
       #include <unistd.h>
       #include <string.h>
       #include <sys/resource.h>

       #include <slurm/spank.h>

       /*
        * All spank plugins must define this macro for the
        * Slurm plugin loader.
        */
       SPANK_PLUGIN(renice, 1);

       #define PRIO_ENV_VAR "SLURM_RENICE"
       #define PRIO_NOT_SET 42

       /*
        * Minimum allowable value for priority. May be
        * set globally via plugin option min_prio=<prio>
        */
       static int min_prio = -20;

       static int prio = PRIO_NOT_SET;

       static int _renice_opt_process (int val,
                                       const char *optarg,
                                       int remote);
       static int _str2prio (const char *str, int *p2int);

       /*
        *  Provide a --renice=[prio] option to srun:
        */
       struct spank_option spank_options[] =
       {
           { "renice", "[prio]",
             "Re-nice job tasks to priority [prio].", 2, 0,
             (spank_opt_cb_f) _renice_opt_process
           },
           SPANK_OPTIONS_TABLE_END
       };

       /*
        *  Called from both srun and slurmd.
        */
       int slurm_spank_init (spank_t sp, int ac, char **av)
       {
           int i;

           /* Don't do anything in sbatch/salloc */
           if (spank_context () == S_CTX_ALLOCATOR)
               return (0);

           for (i = 0; i < ac; i++) {
               if (strncmp ("min_prio=", av[i], 9) == 0) {
                   const char *optarg = av[i] + 9;
                   if (_str2prio (optarg, &min_prio) < 0)
                       slurm_error ("Ignoring invalid min_prio value: %s",
                                    av[i]);
               } else {
                   slurm_error ("renice: Invalid option: %s", av[i]);
               }
           }

           if (!spank_remote (sp))
               slurm_verbose ("renice: min_prio = %d", min_prio);

           return (0);
       }

       int slurm_spank_task_post_fork (spank_t sp, int ac, char **av)
       {
           pid_t pid;
           int taskid;

           if (prio == PRIO_NOT_SET) {
               /* See if SLURM_RENICE env var is set by user */
               char val [1024];

               if (spank_getenv (sp, PRIO_ENV_VAR, val, 1024)
                   != ESPANK_SUCCESS)
                   return (0);

               if (_str2prio (val, &prio) < 0) {
                   slurm_error ("Bad value for %s: %s",
                                PRIO_ENV_VAR, optarg);
                   return (-1);
               }

               if (prio < min_prio) {
                   slurm_error ("%s=%d not allowed, using min=%d",
                                PRIO_ENV_VAR, prio, min_prio);
               }
           }

           if (prio < min_prio)
               prio = min_prio;

           spank_get_item (sp, S_TASK_GLOBAL_ID, &taskid);
           spank_get_item (sp, S_TASK_PID, &pid);

           slurm_info ("re-nicing task%d pid %ld to %ld",
                       taskid, pid, prio);

           if (setpriority (PRIO_PROCESS, (int) pid,
                            (int) prio) < 0) {
               slurm_error ("setpriority: %m");
               return (-1);
           }

           return (0);
       }

       static int _str2prio (const char *str, int *p2int)
       {
           long int l;
           char *p;

           l = strtol (str, &p, 10);
           if ((*p != ' ') || (l < -20) || (l > 20))
               return (-1);

           *p2int = (int) l;

           return (0);
       }

       static int _renice_opt_process (int val,
                                       const char *optarg,
                                       int remote)
       {
           if (optarg == NULL) {
               slurm_error ("renice: invalid argument!");
               return (-1);
           }

           if (_str2prio (optarg, &prio) < 0) {
               slurm_error ("Bad value for --renice: %s",
                            optarg);
               return (-1);
           }

           if (prio < min_prio) {
               slurm_error ("--renice=%d not allowed, will use min=%d",
                            prio, min_prio);
           }

           return (0);
       }

COPYING

       Copyright (C) 2006 The Regents of the University  of  California.   Produced  at  Lawrence
       Livermore National Laboratory (cf, DISCLAIMER).  CODE-OCEC-09-009. All rights reserved.

       This   file   is  part  of  Slurm,  a  resource  management  program.   For  details,  see
       <http://slurm.schedmd.com/>.

       Slurm is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the  terms  of  the
       GNU  General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2
       of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

       Slurm is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without
       even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
       GNU General Public License for more details.

FILES

       /etc/slurm/slurm.conf - Slurm configuration file.
       /etc/slurm/plugstack.conf - SPANK configuration file.
       /usr/include/slurm/spank.h - SPANK header file.

SEE ALSO

       srun(1), slurm.conf(5)