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SPANK - Slurm Plug-in Architecture for Node and job (K)control
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 are loaded in up to five separate contexts during a Slurm job. Briefly, the five contexts are:
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:
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.
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:
spank_err_t spank_get_item (spank_t spank, spank_item_t item, ...);
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
which may be used to translate a spank_err_t value into its string representation.
const char * spank_strerror(spank_err_t err);
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
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. host where srun or sbatch/salloc are invoked) or 1 from the "remote" host (host where slurmd/slurmstepd run) but only executed by slurmstepd (remote context) if the option was registered for such context.
typedef int (*spank_opt_cb_f) (int val, const char *optarg, int remote);
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
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:
spank_err_t spank_option_register (spank_t sp, struct spank_option *opt);
If, however, the option is used in all contexts, the spank_option_register needs to be called everywhere.
if (spank_context() != S_CTX_ALLOCATOR)
spank_option_register (sp, opt);
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, either by command line options or by environment variables, 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. The plugin should be able to handle cases where the spank option is set multiple times through environment variables and command line options. Environment variables are processed before command line options.
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) and can not be used from other contexts.
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:
For example:
required/optional plugin arguments
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.
optional /usr/lib/slurm/test.so
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:
which might be considered a more flexible method for building up a spank plugin stack.
include /etc/slurm/plugstack.conf.d/*
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.
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); }
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/etc/slurm/slurm.conf - Slurm configuration file.
/etc/slurm/plugstack.conf - SPANK configuration file.
/usr/include/slurm/spank.h - SPANK header file.
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