diff --git a/drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/llite/llite_internal.h b/drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/llite/llite_internal.h
index 501957cac8ad..ecdfd0c29b7f 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/llite/llite_internal.h
+++ b/drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/llite/llite_internal.h
@@ -506,6 +506,7 @@ struct ll_sb_info {
 						 */
 	/* root squash */
 	struct root_squash_info	  ll_squash;
+	struct path		 ll_mnt;
 
 	__kernel_fsid_t		  ll_fsid;
 	struct kobject		 ll_kobj; /* sysfs object */
diff --git a/drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/llite/llite_lib.c b/drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/llite/llite_lib.c
index 0a87058bb691..b229cbc7bb33 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/llite/llite_lib.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/llite/llite_lib.c
@@ -304,6 +304,7 @@ static int client_common_fill_super(struct super_block *sb, char *md, char *dt,
 	sb->s_magic = LL_SUPER_MAGIC;
 	sb->s_maxbytes = MAX_LFS_FILESIZE;
 	sbi->ll_namelen = osfs->os_namelen;
+	sbi->ll_mnt.mnt = current->fs->root.mnt;
 
 	if ((sbi->ll_flags & LL_SBI_USER_XATTR) &&
 	    !(data->ocd_connect_flags & OBD_CONNECT_XATTR)) {
@@ -1990,6 +1991,8 @@ void ll_umount_begin(struct super_block *sb)
 	struct ll_sb_info *sbi = ll_s2sbi(sb);
 	struct obd_device *obd;
 	struct obd_ioctl_data *ioc_data;
+	wait_queue_head_t waitq;
+	struct l_wait_info lwi;
 
 	CDEBUG(D_VFSTRACE, "VFS Op: superblock %p count %d active %d\n", sb,
 	       sb->s_count, atomic_read(&sb->s_active));
@@ -2022,9 +2025,14 @@ void ll_umount_begin(struct super_block *sb)
 	}
 
 	/* Really, we'd like to wait until there are no requests outstanding,
-	 * and then continue.  For now, we just invalidate the requests,
-	 * schedule() and sleep one second if needed, and hope.
+	 * and then continue. For now, we just periodically checking for vfs
+	 * to decrement mnt_cnt and hope to finish it within 10sec.
 	 */
+	init_waitqueue_head(&waitq);
+	lwi = LWI_TIMEOUT_INTERVAL(cfs_time_seconds(10),
+				   cfs_time_seconds(1), NULL, NULL);
+	l_wait_event(waitq, may_umount(sbi->ll_mnt.mnt), &lwi);
+
 	schedule();
 }