remove from_forall

compiler/rustc_borrowck/src/handle_placeholders.rs

@@ -157,7 +157,7 @@ fn region_definitions<'tcx>(
     for info in var_infos.iter() {
         let origin = match info.origin {
             RegionVariableOrigin::Nll(origin) => origin,
-            _ => NllRegionVariableOrigin::Existential { from_forall: false, name: None },
+            _ => NllRegionVariableOrigin::Existential { name: None },
         };
 
         let definition = RegionDefinition { origin, universe: info.universe, external_name: None };

compiler/rustc_borrowck/src/region_infer/mod.rs

@@ -1939,10 +1939,15 @@ impl<'tcx> RegionInferenceContext<'tcx> {
         //
         // and here we prefer to blame the source (the y = x statement).
         let blame_source = match from_region_origin {
-            NllRegionVariableOrigin::FreeRegion
-            | NllRegionVariableOrigin::Existential { from_forall: false, name: _ } => true,
-            NllRegionVariableOrigin::Placeholder(_)
-            | NllRegionVariableOrigin::Existential { from_forall: true, name: _ } => false,
+            NllRegionVariableOrigin::FreeRegion => true,
+            NllRegionVariableOrigin::Placeholder(_) => false,
+            // `'existential: 'whatever` never results in a region error by itself.
+            // We may always infer it to `'static` afterall. This means while an error
+            // path may go through an existential, these existentials are never the
+            // `from_region`.
+            NllRegionVariableOrigin::Existential { name: _ } => {
+                unreachable!("existentials can outlive everything")
+            }
         };
 
         // To pick a constraint to blame, we organize constraints by how interesting we expect them

compiler/rustc_borrowck/src/renumber.rs

@@ -66,7 +66,7 @@ impl<'a, 'tcx> RegionRenumberer<'a, 'tcx> {
         T: TypeFoldable<TyCtxt<'tcx>>,
         F: Fn() -> RegionCtxt,
     {
-        let origin = NllRegionVariableOrigin::Existential { from_forall: false, name: None };
+        let origin = NllRegionVariableOrigin::Existential { name: None };
         fold_regions(self.infcx.tcx, value, |_region, _depth| {
             self.infcx.next_nll_region_var(origin, || region_ctxt_fn())
         })

compiler/rustc_borrowck/src/type_check/relate_tys.rs

@@ -216,7 +216,7 @@ impl<'a, 'b, 'tcx> NllTypeRelating<'a, 'b, 'tcx> {
                     *ex_reg_var
                 } else {
                     let ex_reg_var =
-                        self.next_existential_region_var(true, br.kind.get_name(infcx.infcx.tcx));
+                        self.next_existential_region_var(br.kind.get_name(infcx.infcx.tcx));
                     debug!(?ex_reg_var);
                     reg_map.insert(br, ex_reg_var);
 
@@ -244,17 +244,9 @@ impl<'a, 'b, 'tcx> NllTypeRelating<'a, 'b, 'tcx> {
     }
 
     #[instrument(skip(self), level = "debug")]
-    fn next_existential_region_var(
-        &mut self,
-        from_forall: bool,
-        name: Option<Symbol>,
-    ) -> ty::Region<'tcx> {
-        let origin = NllRegionVariableOrigin::Existential { name, from_forall };
-
-        let reg_var =
-            self.type_checker.infcx.next_nll_region_var(origin, || RegionCtxt::Existential(name));
-
-        reg_var
+    fn next_existential_region_var(&mut self, name: Option<Symbol>) -> ty::Region<'tcx> {
+        let origin = NllRegionVariableOrigin::Existential { name };
+        self.type_checker.infcx.next_nll_region_var(origin, || RegionCtxt::Existential(name))
     }
 
     #[instrument(skip(self), level = "debug")]

compiler/rustc_infer/src/infer/mod.rs

@@ -485,17 +485,6 @@ pub enum NllRegionVariableOrigin {
 
     Existential {
         name: Option<Symbol>,
-        /// If this is true, then this variable was created to represent a lifetime
-        /// bound in a `for` binder. For example, it might have been created to
-        /// represent the lifetime `'a` in a type like `for<'a> fn(&'a u32)`.
-        /// Such variables are created when we are trying to figure out if there
-        /// is any valid instantiation of `'a` that could fit into some scenario.
-        ///
-        /// This is used to inform error reporting: in the case that we are trying to
-        /// determine whether there is any valid instantiation of a `'a` variable that meets
-        /// some constraint C, we want to blame the "source" of that `for` type,
-        /// rather than blaming the source of the constraint C.
-        from_forall: bool,
     },
 }