checkpatch: add tests for the attribute matcher

Add support for direct testing of the attribute matcher, add basic tests
for it.

Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
index c6782ac..1c032b1 100755
--- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
+++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
@@ -66,6 +66,7 @@
 my $dbg_values = 0;
 my $dbg_possible = 0;
 my $dbg_type = 0;
+my $dbg_attr = 0;
 for my $key (keys %debug) {
 	eval "\${dbg_$key} = '$debug{$key}';"
 }
@@ -1367,6 +1368,15 @@
 			}
 			next;
 		}
+# TEST: allow direct testing of the attribute matcher.
+		if ($dbg_attr) {
+			if ($line =~ /^.\s*$Attribute\s*$/) {
+				ERROR("TEST: is attr\n" . $herecurr);
+			} elsif ($dbg_attr > 1 && $line =~ /^.+($Attribute)/) {
+				ERROR("TEST: is not attr ($1 is)\n". $herecurr);
+			}
+			next;
+		}
 
 # check for initialisation to aggregates open brace on the next line
 		if ($prevline =~ /$Declare\s*$Ident\s*=\s*$/ &&