Do not treat the absence of a gres.conf file as a fatal error on systems
configured with GRES, but set GRES counts to zero. These counts can be
Counts can be altered by node_config_load() in the gres plugin.

The slurmctld code that processes job notify messages unecessarily
restricts these messages to be from the slurm user or root. This
patch allows users to send notifications to their own jobs.

Many cosmetic modifications to eliminate warning message from GCC version
4.6 compiler, mostly due to unused variables.

jobs happen to be running on blocks not in the new config.

salloc/mpirun does not play well together with task affinity socket binding.  The following example illustrates the problem.

[sulu] (slurm) mnp> salloc -p bones-only -N1-1 -n3 --cpu_bind=socket mpirun cat /proc/self/status | grep Cpus_allowed_list
salloc: Granted job allocation 387
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An invalid physical processor id was returned ...

The problem is that with mpirun jobs Slurm launches only a single task, regardless of the value of -n. This confuses the socket binding logic in task affinity.  The result is that task affinity binds the task to only a single cpu, instead of all the allocated cpus on the socket.  When mpi attempts to bind to any of the other allocated cpus on the socket, it gets the "invalid physical processor id" error. Note that the problem may occur even if socket binding is not explicitly requested by the user.  If task/affinity is configured and the allocated CPUs are a whole number of sockets, Slurm will use "implicit auto binding" to sockets, triggering the problem.
Patch from Martin Perry (Bull).

Update reservation web page to describe mechanism to reserve CPUs rather than whole nodes and provide an example.

Avoid clearing a job's reason from JobHeldAdmin or JobHeldUser when it is
otherwise updated using scontrol or sview commands. Patch based upon work
by Phil Eckert (LLNL).

Do not remove the backup slurmctld's pid file when it assumes control, only
when it actually shuts down. Patch from Andriy Grytsenko (Massive Solutions
Limited).

variable wasn't initialized in the job structure making it so that job
wouldn't run.

on a L/P system or Q.

switching from a bluegene to a regular system with sview.

when using multi-cluster mode in sview

type set it that way right off the start.

conn_types.

This should eliminate an abort reported by Sam Long when a message unpack from the slurmdbd is invalid. Based upon patch from Sam Lang.

was reporting -1 if unknown, new code avoids printing any uid if not known. Patch by Don Albert, Bull.

The "+" sign only appears to indicate that there is more information than the current field width can hold.  For example  "CANCELLED+"  can indicate that the state is actually "CANCELLED by nnn".   Increasing the field width with the %NUMBER format modifier will show this. Patch by Don Albert, Bull.

conn_types in a block definition.

allow them on Q systems.

allocation with jobs running on blocks that don't exist in the static
setup.

This modifcation improves the performance of SLURM's preemption logic
be reducing the execution time of the scheduling logic and doing a better
job of minimizing the number of job's preempted to initiate a new job.
Based largely upon work by Phil Eckert, LLNL.