powerpc/pseries: Make caller pass buffer to plpks_read_var()

Currently, plpks_read_var() allocates a buffer to pass to the
H_PKS_READ_OBJECT hcall, then allocates another buffer into which the data
is copied, and returns that buffer to the caller.

This is a bit over the top - while we probably still want to allocate a
separate buffer to pass to the hypervisor in the hcall, we can let the
caller allocate the final buffer and specify the size.

Don't allocate var->data in plpks_read_var(), instead expect the caller to
allocate it. If the caller needs to discover the size, it can set
var->data to NULL and var->datalen will be populated. Update header file
to document this.

Suggested-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Donnellan <ajd@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Russell Currey <ruscur@russell.cc>
Reviewed-by: Stefan Berger <stefanb@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230210080401.345462-20-ajd@linux.ibm.com

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