[PATCH hyperv-next 1/6] Documentation: hyperv: Confidential VMBus

[Wei Liu]

On Tue, Apr 08, 2025 at 05:08:30PM -0700, Roman Kisel wrote:
> Define what the confidential VMBus is and describe what advantages
> it offers on the capable hardware.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Roman Kisel <romank at linux.microsoft.com>
> ---
>  Documentation/virt/hyperv/vmbus.rst | 41 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  1 file changed, 41 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/Documentation/virt/hyperv/vmbus.rst b/Documentation/virt/hyperv/vmbus.rst
> index 1dcef6a7fda3..f600e3d09800 100644
> --- a/Documentation/virt/hyperv/vmbus.rst
> +++ b/Documentation/virt/hyperv/vmbus.rst
> @@ -324,3 +324,44 @@ rescinded, neither Hyper-V nor Linux retains any state about
>  its previous existence. Such a device might be re-added later,
>  in which case it is treated as an entirely new device. See
>  vmbus_onoffer_rescind().
> +
> +Confidential VMBus
> +------------------
> +
> +The confidential VMBus provides the control and data planes where
> +the guest doesn't talk to either the hypervisor or the host. Instead,
> +it relies on the trusted paravisor. The hardware (SNP or TDX) encrypts
> +the guest memory and the register state also measuring the paravisor
> +image via using the platform security processor to ensure trsuted and
> +confidential computing.
> +
> +To support confidential communication with the paravisor, a VmBus client

Please be consistent. In this document I see VMBus and VmBus. We should
stick with only one form.

Wei.