char: xilinx_hwicap: replace page allocator calls with k[mz]alloc()

hwicap_read() and hwicap_write() allocate temporary buffers used to pass
the FPGA configuration data to and from userspace.

These buffers can be allocated with kmalloc() as there's nothing special
about them to go directly to the page allocator.

kmalloc() provides a better API that does not require ugly casts and
kfree() does not need to know the size of the freed object.

Performance difference between kmalloc() and __get_free_pages() is not
measurable as both allocators take an object/page from a per-CPU list for
fast path allocations.

For the slow path the performance is anyway determined by the amount of
reclaim involved rather than by what allocator is used.

Replace use of __get_free_page() and get_zeroed_page() with kmalloc() and
kzalloc() and free_page() with kfree().

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/635405e4-9423-4a25-a6e7-e03c8ea0bcbe@redhat.com
Assisted-by: copilot:claude-opus
Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) <rppt@kernel.org>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260830-char-misc-v1-1-05e2ce44f291@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

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