diff --git a/llvm/test/tools/llvm-profdata/sample-hot-func-list.test b/llvm/test/tools/llvm-profdata/sample-hot-func-list.test
--- a/llvm/test/tools/llvm-profdata/sample-hot-func-list.test
+++ b/llvm/test/tools/llvm-profdata/sample-hot-func-list.test
@@ -12,6 +12,13 @@
 ; CHECK-NEXT: 6948 (1.95%)           3507              470             Func5
 ; CHECK-NEXT: 1523 (0.43%)           563               169             Func1
 
+; RUN: llvm-profdata show --sample --hot-func-list --topn=2 %S/Inputs/sample-hot-func-list.proftext | FileCheck %s --match-full-lines --strict-whitespace --check-prefix=TOPN
+
+;      TOPN:8 out of 10 functions with profile (80.00%) are considered hot functions (max sample >= 470).
+; TOPN-NEXT:355251 out of 356026 profile counts (99.78%) are from hot functions.
+; TOPN-NEXT: Total sample (%)       Max sample        Entry sample    Function name
+; TOPN-NEXT: 184019 (51.69%)        2300              534             main
+; TOPN-NEXT: 97401 (27.36%)         10640             3035            Func3
 
 ; RUN: llvm-profdata show --sample --hot-func-list %S/Inputs/cs-sample.proftext | FileCheck %s --match-full-lines --strict-whitespace --check-prefix=CS
 
@@ -20,3 +27,10 @@
 ; CS-NEXT: Total sample (%)       Max sample        Entry sample    Function name
 ; CS-NEXT: 1467299 (74.52%)       287884            11              main:3 @ _Z5funcAi:1 @ _Z8funcLeafi
 ; CS-NEXT: 500853 (25.44%)        74946             20              main:3.1 @ _Z5funcBi:1 @ _Z8funcLeafi
+
+; RUN: llvm-profdata show --sample --hot-func-list --topn=1 %S/Inputs/cs-sample.proftext | FileCheck %s --match-full-lines --strict-whitespace --check-prefix=CS-TOPN
+
+;      CS-TOPN:2 out of 8 functions with profile (25.00%) are considered hot functions (max sample >= 23324).
+; CS-TOPN-NEXT:1968152 out of 1968919 profile counts (99.96%) are from hot functions.
+; CS-TOPN-NEXT: Total sample (%)       Max sample        Entry sample    Function name
+; CS-TOPN-NEXT: 1467299 (74.52%)       287884            11              main:3 @ _Z5funcAi:1 @ _Z8funcLeafi
diff --git a/llvm/tools/llvm-profdata/llvm-profdata.cpp b/llvm/tools/llvm-profdata/llvm-profdata.cpp
--- a/llvm/tools/llvm-profdata/llvm-profdata.cpp
+++ b/llvm/tools/llvm-profdata/llvm-profdata.cpp
@@ -2304,7 +2304,7 @@
                                 uint64_t HotFuncCount, uint64_t TotalFuncCount,
                                 uint64_t HotProfCount, uint64_t TotalProfCount,
                                 const std::string &HotFuncMetric,
-                                raw_fd_ostream &OS) {
+                                uint32_t TopNFunctions, raw_fd_ostream &OS) {
   assert(ColumnOffset.size() == ColumnTitle.size() &&
          "ColumnOffset and ColumnTitle should have the same size");
   assert(ColumnTitle.size() >= 4 &&
@@ -2333,7 +2333,10 @@
   }
   FOS << "\n";
 
-  for (const HotFuncInfo &R : PrintValues) {
+  uint32_t count = 0;
+  for (const auto &R : PrintValues) {
+    if (TopNFunctions && (count++ == TopNFunctions))
+      break;
     FOS.PadToColumn(ColumnOffset[0]);
     FOS << R.TotalCount << " (" << format("%.2f%%", R.TotalCountPercent) << ")";
     FOS.PadToColumn(ColumnOffset[1]);
@@ -2346,7 +2349,8 @@
 }
 
 static int showHotFunctionList(const sampleprof::SampleProfileMap &Profiles,
-                               ProfileSummary &PS, raw_fd_ostream &OS) {
+                               ProfileSummary &PS, uint32_t topN,
+                               raw_fd_ostream &OS) {
   using namespace sampleprof;
 
   const uint32_t HotFuncCutoff = 990000;
@@ -2401,13 +2405,14 @@
   }
   dumpHotFunctionList(ColumnTitle, ColumnOffset, PrintValues, HotFuncCount,
                       Profiles.size(), HotFuncSample, ProfileTotalSample,
-                      Metric, OS);
+                      Metric, topN, OS);
 
   return 0;
 }
 
 static int showSampleProfile(const std::string &Filename, bool ShowCounts,
-                             bool ShowAllFunctions, bool ShowDetailedSummary,
+                             uint32_t TopN, bool ShowAllFunctions,
+                             bool ShowDetailedSummary,
                              const std::string &ShowFunction,
                              bool ShowProfileSymbolList,
                              bool ShowSectionInfoOnly, bool ShowHotFuncList,
@@ -2447,7 +2452,7 @@
   }
 
   if (ShowHotFuncList)
-    showHotFunctionList(Reader->getProfiles(), Reader->getSummary(), OS);
+    showHotFunctionList(Reader->getProfiles(), Reader->getSummary(), TopN, OS);
 
   return 0;
 }
@@ -2538,10 +2543,10 @@
         ShowAllFunctions, ShowCS, ValueCutoff, OnlyListBelow, ShowFunction,
         TextFormat, ShowBinaryIds, OS);
   else
-    return showSampleProfile(Filename, ShowCounts, ShowAllFunctions,
-                             ShowDetailedSummary, ShowFunction,
-                             ShowProfileSymbolList, ShowSectionInfoOnly,
-                             ShowHotFuncList, OS);
+    return showSampleProfile(Filename, ShowCounts, TopNFunctions,
+                             ShowAllFunctions, ShowDetailedSummary,
+                             ShowFunction, ShowProfileSymbolList,
+                             ShowSectionInfoOnly, ShowHotFuncList, OS);
 }
 
 int main(int argc, const char *argv[]) {