move the check for instantiation from metadata encoding to the actual decision site

before it was assumed that anything that had a MIR was fair game for local instatiation

src/librustc/middle/cstore.rs

@@ -355,6 +355,11 @@ pub trait CrateStore<'tcx> {
     fn get_item_mir<'a>(&self, tcx: TyCtxt<'a, 'tcx, 'tcx>, def: DefId) -> Mir<'tcx>;
     fn is_item_mir_available(&self, def: DefId) -> bool;
 
+    /// Take a look if we need to inline or monomorphize this. If so, we
+    /// will emit code for this item in the local crate, and thus
+    /// create a translation item for it.
+    fn can_have_local_instance<'a>(&self, tcx: TyCtxt<'a, 'tcx, 'tcx>, def: DefId) -> bool;
+
     // This is basically a 1-based range of ints, which is a little
     // silly - I may fix that.
     fn crates(&self) -> Vec<CrateNum>;
@@ -528,6 +533,9 @@ impl<'tcx> CrateStore<'tcx> for DummyCrateStore {
     fn is_item_mir_available(&self, def: DefId) -> bool {
         bug!("is_item_mir_available")
     }
+    fn can_have_local_instance<'a>(&self, tcx: TyCtxt<'a, 'tcx, 'tcx>, def: DefId) -> bool {
+        bug!("can_have_local_instance")
+    }
 
     // This is basically a 1-based range of ints, which is a little
     // silly - I may fix that.

src/librustc_metadata/cstore_impl.rs

@@ -527,6 +527,11 @@ impl<'tcx> CrateStore<'tcx> for cstore::CStore {
         self.get_crate_data(def.krate).is_item_mir_available(def.index)
     }
 
+    fn can_have_local_instance<'a>(&self, tcx: TyCtxt<'a, 'tcx, 'tcx>, def: DefId) -> bool {
+        self.dep_graph.read(DepNode::MetaData(def));
+        def.is_local() || self.get_crate_data(def.krate).can_have_local_instance(tcx, def.index)
+    }
+
     fn crates(&self) -> Vec<CrateNum>
     {
         let mut result = vec![];

src/librustc_metadata/decoder.rs

@@ -847,6 +847,29 @@ impl<'a, 'tcx> CrateMetadata {
         self.maybe_entry(id).and_then(|item| item.decode(self).mir).is_some()
     }
 
+    pub fn can_have_local_instance(&self,
+                                   tcx: TyCtxt<'a, 'tcx, 'tcx>,
+                                   id: DefIndex) -> bool {
+        self.maybe_entry(id).map_or(false, |item| {
+            let item = item.decode(self);
+            // if we don't have a MIR, then this item was never meant to be locally instantiated
+            // or we have a bug in the metadata serialization
+            item.mir.is_some() && (
+                // items with generics always can have local instances if monomorphized
+                item.generics.map_or(false, |generics| {
+                    let generics = generics.decode((self, tcx));
+                    generics.parent_types != 0 || !generics.types.is_empty()
+                }) ||
+                match item.kind {
+                    EntryKind::Closure(_) => true,
+                    _ => false,
+                } ||
+                item.kind.is_const_fn(self) ||
+                attr::requests_inline(&self.get_attributes(&item))
+            )
+        })
+    }
+
     pub fn maybe_get_item_mir(&self,
                               tcx: TyCtxt<'a, 'tcx, 'tcx>,
                               id: DefIndex)

src/librustc_trans/collector.rs

@@ -706,10 +706,7 @@ impl<'a, 'tcx> MirVisitor<'tcx> for MirNeighborCollector<'a, 'tcx> {
 fn can_have_local_instance<'a, 'tcx>(tcx: TyCtxt<'a, 'tcx, 'tcx>,
                                      def_id: DefId)
                                      -> bool {
-    // Take a look if we have the definition available. If so, we
-    // will emit code for this item in the local crate, and thus
-    // create a translation item for it.
-    def_id.is_local() || tcx.sess.cstore.is_item_mir_available(def_id)
+    tcx.sess.cstore.can_have_local_instance(tcx, def_id)
 }
 
 fn find_drop_glue_neighbors<'a, 'tcx>(scx: &SharedCrateContext<'a, 'tcx>,