checkpatch: add rules to check init attribute and const defects
People get this regularly wrong and it breaks the LTO builds, as it causes a section attribute conflict. Add --fix capability too. Based on a patch from Andi Kleen. Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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