Roy Spliet:
- Implement according to specs
- Simplify
- Make array for mc latency registers

Martin Peres:
- squash and split all the commits from Roy
- rework following Ben Skeggs comments
- add a form of timings validation
- store the initial timings for later use

Ben Skeggs
- merge slightly modified tidy-up patch with this one
- remove perflvl-dropping logic for the moment
Signed-off-by: Roy Spliet <r.spliet@student.tudelft.nl>
Signed-off-by: Martin Peres <martin.peres@labri.fr>
Signed-off-by: Ben Skeggs <bskeggs@redhat.com>