diff --git a/llvm/lib/ProfileData/SampleProfWriter.cpp b/llvm/lib/ProfileData/SampleProfWriter.cpp
--- a/llvm/lib/ProfileData/SampleProfWriter.cpp
+++ b/llvm/lib/ProfileData/SampleProfWriter.cpp
@@ -252,6 +252,9 @@
 }
 
 std::error_code SampleProfileWriterExtBinaryBase::writeCSNameTableSection() {
+  if (CSNameTable.empty())
+    return sampleprof_error::success;
+
   // Sort the names to make CSNameTable deterministic.
   std::set<SampleContext> OrderedContexts;
   for (const auto &I : CSNameTable)
diff --git a/llvm/test/tools/llvm-profgen/inline-noprobe2.test b/llvm/test/tools/llvm-profgen/inline-noprobe2.test
--- a/llvm/test/tools/llvm-profgen/inline-noprobe2.test
+++ b/llvm/test/tools/llvm-profgen/inline-noprobe2.test
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@
 ; RUN: FileCheck %s --input-file %t --check-prefix=CHECK
 
 ; RUN: llvm-profgen --format=extbinary --perfscript=%S/Inputs/inline-noprobe2.perfscript --binary=%S/Inputs/inline-noprobe2.perfbin --output=%t
+; RUN: llvm-profdata show --show-sec-info-only  -sample %t | FileCheck %s --check-prefix=CHECK-SECTION-INFO
 ; RUN: llvm-profdata show -show-prof-sym-list -sample %t | FileCheck %s --check-prefix=CHECK-SYM-LIST
 
 ; CHECK-ARTIFICIAL-BRANCH: 3
@@ -16,6 +17,9 @@
 ; CHECK-ARTIFICIAL-BRANCH: 400870->400540:2
 ; CHECK-ARTIFICIAL-BRANCH: 4008bf->400870:2
 
+; CHECK-SECTION-INFO: CSNameTableSection - Offset: [[#]], Size: 0, Flags: {}
+; CHECK-SECTION-INFO: FunctionMetadata - Offset: [[#]], Size: 0, Flags: {}
+
 ; CHECK-SYM-LIST: Dump profile symbol list
 ; CHECK-SYM-LIST: main
 ; CHECK-SYM-LIST: partition_pivot_first