kvm: x86: optimize dr6 restore

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The quote from the comment almost says it all: we are currently zeroing
the guest dr6 in kvm_arch_vcpu_put, because do_debug expects it.  However,
the host %dr6 is either:

- zero because the guest hasn't run after kvm_arch_vcpu_load

- written from vcpu->arch.dr6 by vcpu_enter_guest

- written by the guest and copied to vcpu->arch.dr6 by ->sync_dirty_debug_regs().

Therefore, we can skip the write if vcpu->arch.dr6 is already zero.  We
may do extra useless writes if vcpu->arch.dr6 is nonzero but the guest
hasn't run; however that is less important for performance.

Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>

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