diff --git a/Documentation/sound/alsa/Procfile.txt b/Documentation/sound/alsa/Procfile.txt
index bba2dbb79d81c10d71bbc5b0879f6d3745d1543d..cfac20cf9e33fa150a6cf69f4e6d624e8116caa9 100644
--- a/Documentation/sound/alsa/Procfile.txt
+++ b/Documentation/sound/alsa/Procfile.txt
@@ -104,6 +104,11 @@ card*/pcm*/xrun_debug
 	When this value is greater than 1, the driver will show the
 	stack trace additionally.  This may help the debugging.
 
+	Since 2.6.30, this option also enables the hwptr check using
+	jiffies.  This detects spontaneous invalid pointer callback
+	values, but can be lead to too much corrections for a (mostly
+	buggy) hardware that doesn't give smooth pointer updates.
+
 card*/pcm*/sub*/info
 	The general information of this PCM sub-stream.
 
diff --git a/sound/core/pcm_lib.c b/sound/core/pcm_lib.c
index 3eea98a4e65ac4e5816963e493945222e92ace4d..d659995ac3ac7be2f20e488c71b7b3fe405a879e 100644
--- a/sound/core/pcm_lib.c
+++ b/sound/core/pcm_lib.c
@@ -249,6 +249,11 @@ static int snd_pcm_update_hw_ptr_interrupt(struct snd_pcm_substream *substream)
 			new_hw_ptr = hw_base + pos;
 		}
 	}
+
+	/* Do jiffies check only in xrun_debug mode */
+	if (!xrun_debug(substream))
+		goto no_jiffies_check;
+
 	/* Skip the jiffies check for hardwares with BATCH flag.
 	 * Such hardware usually just increases the position at each IRQ,
 	 * thus it can't give any strange position.
@@ -336,7 +341,9 @@ int snd_pcm_update_hw_ptr(struct snd_pcm_substream *substream)
 			hw_base = 0;
 		new_hw_ptr = hw_base + pos;
 	}
-	if (((delta * HZ) / runtime->rate) > jdelta + HZ/100) {
+	/* Do jiffies check only in xrun_debug mode */
+	if (xrun_debug(substream) &&
+	    ((delta * HZ) / runtime->rate) > jdelta + HZ/100) {
 		hw_ptr_error(substream,
 			     "hw_ptr skipping! "
 			     "(pos=%ld, delta=%ld, period=%ld, jdelta=%lu/%lu)\n",