Add design-for-payload document.

Signed-off-by: Jiewen Yao <[email protected]>

doc/design-for-payload.md

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+# payload design
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+`td-shim` supports boot a `td-payload`, which could be a normal OS kernel, or a bare-metal execution environment.
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+## dependency
+
+A rust-based bare-metal environment for `td-payload` can only have below dependency:
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+1)	Rust Language `Core` - https://doc.rust-lang.org/core/.
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+2) 3rd party rust core crates registered at https://crates.io/, after evaluation.
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+3)	The sharable tdx related crates for bare-metal service.
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+Examples include crates in [td-shim](https://github.com/confidential-containers/td-shim) project, such as [td-exception](https://github.com/confidential-containers/td-shim/tree/main/td-exception), [tdx-tdcall](https://github.com/confidential-containers/td-shim/tree/main/tdx-tdcall), [td-logger](https://github.com/confidential-containers/td-shim/tree/main/td-logger), [td-paging](https://github.com/confidential-containers/td-shim/tree/main/td-paging) etc, also [rust-spdm](https://github.com/intel/rust-spdm).
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+## memory footprint
+
+The size of `td-payload` depends on the feature, and it is configurable.
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+The [td-benchmark](https://github.com/confidential-containers/td-shim/tree/main/devtools/td-benchmark) tool to evaluated the stack and heap usage at runtime. Please refere to [test_heap_stack_usage](https://github.com/confidential-containers/td-shim/blob/main/doc/test_heap_stack_usage.md).
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+For example:
+1) [MigTD](https://github.com/intel/MigTD)
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+8M image and 32M runtime memory. They are configured at https://github.com/intel/MigTD/blob/main/config/metadata.json.
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+2) [vtpm-td](https://github.com/intel/vtpm-td)
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+8M image and 32M runtime memory. They are configured at https://github.com/intel/vtpm-td/blob/main/config/metadata.json.
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+## memory allocation
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+We can use rust core alloc crate.
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+For example: [linked_list_allocateor](https://github.com/rust-osdev/linked-list-allocator)
+
+## crypto support
+
+Td-payload can use rust crypto libraries, such as [ring](https://github.com/briansmith/ring), [webpki](https://github.com/briansmith/webpki), or [rust-mbedtls](https://github.com/fortanix/rust-mbedtls), which support `no-std`.
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+But [rustls](https://github.com/rustls/rustls) and [rust-openssl](https://github.com/sfackler/rust-openssl) require rust `std` support.
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+To support linking different crypto crate, the consumer has better use crypto traits, such as https://github.com/RustCrypto/traits.
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