Update the future/task API

This change updates the future and task API as discussed in the stabilization RFC at rust-lang/rfcs#2592.

Changes:
- Replacing UnsafeWake with RawWaker and RawWakerVtable
- Removal of LocalWaker
- Removal of Arc-based Wake trait

src/liballoc/boxed.rs

@@ -71,7 +71,7 @@ use core::ops::{
     CoerceUnsized, DispatchFromDyn, Deref, DerefMut, Receiver, Generator, GeneratorState
 };
 use core::ptr::{self, NonNull, Unique};
-use core::task::{LocalWaker, Poll};
+use core::task::{Waker, Poll};
 
 use crate::vec::Vec;
 use crate::raw_vec::RawVec;
@@ -896,7 +896,7 @@ impl<G: ?Sized + Generator> Generator for Pin<Box<G>> {
 impl<F: ?Sized + Future + Unpin> Future for Box<F> {
     type Output = F::Output;
 
-    fn poll(mut self: Pin<&mut Self>, lw: &LocalWaker) -> Poll<Self::Output> {
-        F::poll(Pin::new(&mut *self), lw)
+    fn poll(mut self: Pin<&mut Self>, waker: &Waker) -> Poll<Self::Output> {
+        F::poll(Pin::new(&mut *self), waker)
     }
 }

src/liballoc/lib.rs

@@ -133,10 +133,6 @@ mod macros;
 
 pub mod alloc;
 
-#[unstable(feature = "futures_api",
-           reason = "futures in libcore are unstable",
-           issue = "50547")]
-pub mod task;
 // Primitive types using the heaps above
 
 // Need to conditionally define the mod from `boxed.rs` to avoid

src/libcore/future/future.rs

@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
 use marker::Unpin;
 use ops;
 use pin::Pin;
-use task::{Poll, LocalWaker};
+use task::{Poll, Waker};
 
 /// A future represents an asynchronous computation.
 ///
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ use task::{Poll, LocalWaker};
 /// `await!` the value.
 #[must_use = "futures do nothing unless polled"]
 pub trait Future {
-    /// The result of the `Future`.
+    /// The type of value produced on completion.
     type Output;
 
     /// Attempt to resolve the future to a final value, registering
@@ -42,16 +42,16 @@ pub trait Future {
     /// Once a future has finished, clients should not `poll` it again.
     ///
     /// When a future is not ready yet, `poll` returns `Poll::Pending` and
-    /// stores a clone of the [`LocalWaker`] to be woken once the future can
+    /// stores a clone of the [`Waker`] to be woken once the future can
     /// make progress. For example, a future waiting for a socket to become
-    /// readable would call `.clone()` on the [`LocalWaker`] and store it.
+    /// readable would call `.clone()` on the [`Waker`] and store it.
     /// When a signal arrives elsewhere indicating that the socket is readable,
-    /// `[LocalWaker::wake]` is called and the socket future's task is awoken.
+    /// `[Waker::wake]` is called and the socket future's task is awoken.
     /// Once a task has been woken up, it should attempt to `poll` the future
     /// again, which may or may not produce a final value.
     ///
     /// Note that on multiple calls to `poll`, only the most recent
-    /// [`LocalWaker`] passed to `poll` should be scheduled to receive a
+    /// [`Waker`] passed to `poll` should be scheduled to receive a
     /// wakeup.
     ///
     /// # Runtime characteristics
@@ -74,16 +74,6 @@ pub trait Future {
     /// thread pool (or something similar) to ensure that `poll` can return
     /// quickly.
     ///
-    /// # [`LocalWaker`], [`Waker`] and thread-safety
-    ///
-    /// The `poll` function takes a [`LocalWaker`], an object which knows how to
-    /// awaken the current task. [`LocalWaker`] is not `Send` nor `Sync`, so in
-    /// order to make thread-safe futures the [`LocalWaker::into_waker`] method
-    /// should be used to convert the [`LocalWaker`] into a thread-safe version.
-    /// [`LocalWaker::wake`] implementations have the ability to be more
-    /// efficient, however, so when thread safety is not necessary,
-    /// [`LocalWaker`] should be preferred.
-    ///
     /// # Panics
     ///
     /// Once a future has completed (returned `Ready` from `poll`),
@@ -93,18 +83,16 @@ pub trait Future {
     ///
     /// [`Poll::Pending`]: ../task/enum.Poll.html#variant.Pending
     /// [`Poll::Ready(val)`]: ../task/enum.Poll.html#variant.Ready
-    /// [`LocalWaker`]: ../task/struct.LocalWaker.html
-    /// [`LocalWaker::into_waker`]: ../task/struct.LocalWaker.html#method.into_waker
-    /// [`LocalWaker::wake`]: ../task/struct.LocalWaker.html#method.wake
     /// [`Waker`]: ../task/struct.Waker.html
-    fn poll(self: Pin<&mut Self>, lw: &LocalWaker) -> Poll<Self::Output>;
+    /// [`Waker::wake`]: ../task/struct.Waker.html#method.wake
+    fn poll(self: Pin<&mut Self>, waker: &Waker) -> Poll<Self::Output>;
 }
 
 impl<'a, F: ?Sized + Future + Unpin> Future for &'a mut F {
     type Output = F::Output;
 
-    fn poll(mut self: Pin<&mut Self>, lw: &LocalWaker) -> Poll<Self::Output> {
-        F::poll(Pin::new(&mut **self), lw)
+    fn poll(mut self: Pin<&mut Self>, waker: &Waker) -> Poll<Self::Output> {
+        F::poll(Pin::new(&mut **self), waker)
     }
 }
 
@@ -115,7 +103,7 @@ where
 {
     type Output = <<P as ops::Deref>::Target as Future>::Output;
 
-    fn poll(self: Pin<&mut Self>, lw: &LocalWaker) -> Poll<Self::Output> {
-        Pin::get_mut(self).as_mut().poll(lw)
+    fn poll(self: Pin<&mut Self>, waker: &Waker) -> Poll<Self::Output> {
+        Pin::get_mut(self).as_mut().poll(waker)
     }
 }

src/libcore/task/mod.rs

@@ -8,4 +8,4 @@ mod poll;
 pub use self::poll::Poll;
 
 mod wake;
-pub use self::wake::{Waker, LocalWaker, UnsafeWake};
+pub use self::wake::{Waker, RawWaker, RawWakerVTable};