feat(llama-cpp): forward unknown '-' options to upstream arg parser

Any options: entry starting with '-' is collected and passed verbatim to
llama.cpp's own common_params_parse (LLAMA_EXAMPLE_SERVER) at the end of
params_parse, so every upstream llama-server flag works without a new
hand-wired branch. Passthrough runs last and wins on overlap; n_parallel is
snapshotted to survive parser_init's SERVER reset, and help/usage/completion
flags are skipped to avoid exiting the backend.

Closes #10483

Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
This commit is contained in:
Ettore Di Giacinto
2026-06-24 17:10:18 +00:00
parent 811f0db2e3
commit 74e6c60045

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@@ -37,6 +37,7 @@
#include "backend.pb.h"
#include "backend.grpc.pb.h"
#include "common.h"
#include "arg.h"
#include "chat-auto-parser.h"
#include <getopt.h>
#include <grpcpp/ext/proto_server_reflection_plugin.h>
@@ -592,6 +593,10 @@ static void params_parse(server_context& /*ctx_server*/, const backend::ModelOpt
params.checkpoint_min_step = 256;
#endif
// Raw upstream llama-server flags collected from any option entry that
// starts with '-'. Applied once after the loop via common_params_parse.
std::vector<std::string> extra_argv;
// decode options. Options are in form optname:optvale, or if booleans only optname.
for (int i = 0; i < request->options_size(); i++) {
std::string opt = request->options(i);
@@ -1136,6 +1141,27 @@ static void params_parse(server_context& /*ctx_server*/, const backend::ModelOpt
else { cur.push_back(c); }
}
if (!cur.empty()) flush(cur);
// --- generic passthrough: any entry starting with '-' is a raw
// upstream llama-server flag, forwarded verbatim to the parser. ---
} else if (optname[0] == '-') {
std::string flag = optname;
// These flags make upstream's parser exit() (printing usage /
// completion), which would kill the backend process. Skip them.
if (flag == "-h" || flag == "--help" || flag == "--usage" ||
flag.rfind("--completion", 0) == 0) {
fprintf(stderr,
"[llama-cpp] ignoring passthrough flag that would exit: %s\n",
flag.c_str());
} else {
extra_argv.push_back(flag);
// Preserve the whole value after the first ':' so embedded
// colons (e.g. host:port) survive strtok's truncation of optval.
auto colon = opt.find(':');
if (colon != std::string::npos) {
extra_argv.push_back(opt.substr(colon + 1));
}
}
}
}
@@ -1284,6 +1310,39 @@ static void params_parse(server_context& /*ctx_server*/, const backend::ModelOpt
params.sampling.grammar_triggers.push_back(std::move(trigger));
}
}
// Apply any raw upstream flags last so an explicit passthrough flag wins
// over the LocalAI-resolved field it maps to (e.g. --ctx-size beats
// context_size). This is the same parser llama-server itself uses.
if (!extra_argv.empty()) {
// common_params_parser_init resets a few fields for the SERVER example
// (n_parallel -> -1, use_color). Snapshot n_parallel so an unrelated
// passthrough flag can't silently clobber LocalAI's resolved value.
const int saved_n_parallel = params.n_parallel;
std::vector<char *> argv;
std::string prog = "llama-server";
argv.push_back(prog.data());
for (auto & a : extra_argv) {
argv.push_back(a.data());
}
// ctx_arg.params is a reference, so this overlays the given flags onto
// `params` in place. Returns false on a recoverable parse error (and
// self-restores params); may exit() on a hard error, exactly as
// passing the same bad flag to llama-server would.
if (!common_params_parse((int)argv.size(), argv.data(), params,
LLAMA_EXAMPLE_SERVER)) {
fprintf(stderr,
"[llama-cpp] failed to parse passthrough options; ignoring them\n");
}
// Restore n_parallel unless a passthrough flag explicitly set it
// (parser_init's reset sentinel for SERVER is -1).
if (params.n_parallel == -1) {
params.n_parallel = saved_n_parallel;
}
}
}