diff --git a/compiler-rt/lib/profile/InstrProfilingWriter.c b/compiler-rt/lib/profile/InstrProfilingWriter.c
--- a/compiler-rt/lib/profile/InstrProfilingWriter.c
+++ b/compiler-rt/lib/profile/InstrProfilingWriter.c
@@ -276,9 +276,6 @@
   /* Create the header. */
   __llvm_profile_header Header;
 
-  if (!NumData && (!DebugInfoCorrelate || !NumCounters))
-    return 0;
-
   /* Determine how much padding is needed before/after the counters and after
    * the names. */
   uint64_t PaddingBytesBeforeCounters, PaddingBytesAfterCounters,
diff --git a/compiler-rt/test/profile/Posix/instrprof-empty-profile.c b/compiler-rt/test/profile/Posix/instrprof-empty-profile.c
new file mode 100644
--- /dev/null
+++ b/compiler-rt/test/profile/Posix/instrprof-empty-profile.c
@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+// Test a profile with only a header is generated when a src file is not in the
+//    selected files list provided via -fprofile-list.
+
+// RUN: mkdir -p %t.d
+// RUN: echo "src:other.c" > %t-file.list
+// RUN: %clang_profgen -fprofile-list=%t-file.list -o %t %s
+// RUN: env LLVM_PROFILE_FILE=%t.profraw %run %t
+// RUN: llvm-profdata show %t.profraw | FileCheck %s --check-prefix=RAW-PROFILE-HEADER-ONLY
+
+// RUN: llvm-profdata merge -o %t.profdata %t.profraw
+// RUN: llvm-profdata show %t.profdata | FileCheck %s --check-prefix=INDEXED-PROFILE-HEADER-ONLY
+
+int main() { return 0; }
+
+// RAW-PROFILE-HEADER-ONLY: Instrumentation level: Front-end
+// RAW-PROFILE-HEADER-ONLY-NEXT: Total functions: 0
+// RAW-PROFILE-HEADER-ONLY-NEXT: Maximum function count: 0
+// RAW-PROFILE-HEADER-ONLY-NEXT: Maximum internal block count: 0
+
+// INDEXED-PROFILE-HEADER-ONLY: Instrumentation level: Front-end
+// INDEXED-PROFILE-HEADER-ONLY-NEXT: Total functions: 0
+// INDEXED-PROFILE-HEADER-ONLY-NEXT: Maximum function count: 0
+// INDEXED-PROFILE-HEADER-ONLY-NEXT: Maximum internal block count: 0
diff --git a/compiler-rt/test/profile/Posix/instrprof-shared-empty-profile.test b/compiler-rt/test/profile/Posix/instrprof-shared-empty-profile.test
new file mode 100644
--- /dev/null
+++ b/compiler-rt/test/profile/Posix/instrprof-shared-empty-profile.test
@@ -0,0 +1,42 @@
+"""
+This test produces two shared libraries:
+
+1. libt-instr.so is instrumented
+2. libt-no-instr.so is built with profile rt linked in (via -u<hook>), but the object file is built
+   with instrumentation turned off.
+
+The test verifies concatenating profiles with only headers and no profile data and counters.
+"""
+
+RUN: mkdir -p %t.d
+RUN: %clang_profgen -o %t.d/libt-instr.so -fPIC -shared %S/../Inputs/instrprof-shared-lib.c
+RUN: %clang -c -o %t.d/instrprof-shared-lib-no-instr.o -fPIC  %S/../Inputs/instrprof-shared-lib.c
+RUN: %clang_profgen -o %t.d/libt-no-instr.so -fPIC -shared %t.d/instrprof-shared-lib-no-instr.o
+
+# Header + Header
+RUN: echo "src:other.c" > %t-file.list
+RUN: %clang_profgen -fprofile-list=%t-file.list -o %t-no-instr-no-instr -L%t.d -rpath %t.d -lt-no-instr  %S/../Inputs/instrprof-shared-main.c
+RUN: env LLVM_PROFILE_FILE=%t-no-instr-no-instr.profraw %run %t-no-instr-no-instr
+RUN: llvm-profdata show %t-no-instr-no-instr.profraw | FileCheck %s --check-prefix=HEADER-HEADER
+// HEADER-HEADER: Instrumentation level: Front-end
+// HEADER-HEADER-NEXT: Total functions: 0
+// HEADER-HEADER-NEXT: Maximum function count: 0
+// HEADER-HEADER-NEXT: Maximum internal block count: 0
+
+# Header + Profile
+RUN: %clang_profgen -fprofile-list=%t-file.list -o %t-no-instr-instr -L%t.d -rpath %t.d -lt-instr  %S/../Inputs/instrprof-shared-main.c
+RUN: env LLVM_PROFILE_FILE=%t-no-instr-instr.profraw %run %t-no-instr-instr
+RUN: llvm-profdata show %t-no-instr-instr.profraw | FileCheck %s --check-prefix=HEADER-PROFILE
+// HEADER-PROFILE: Instrumentation level: Front-end
+// HEADER-PROFILE-NEXT: Total functions: 1
+// HEADER-PROFILE-NEXT: Maximum function count: 1000000
+// HEADER-PROFILE-NEXT: Maximum internal block count: 360000
+
+# Profile + Header
+RUN: %clang_profgen -o %t-instr-no-instr -L%t.d -rpath %t.d -lt-no-instr %S/../Inputs/instrprof-shared-main.c
+RUN: env LLVM_PROFILE_FILE=%t-instr-no-instr.profraw %run %t-instr-no-instr
+RUN: llvm-profdata show %t-instr-no-instr.profraw | FileCheck %s --check-prefix=PROFILE-HEADER
+// PROFILE-HEADER: Instrumentation level: Front-end
+// PROFILE-HEADER-NEXT: Total functions: 1
+// PROFILE-HEADER-NEXT: Maximum function count: 1
+// PROFILE-HEADER-NEXT: Maximum internal block count: 1000000
diff --git a/llvm/lib/ProfileData/InstrProfReader.cpp b/llvm/lib/ProfileData/InstrProfReader.cpp
--- a/llvm/lib/ProfileData/InstrProfReader.cpp
+++ b/llvm/lib/ProfileData/InstrProfReader.cpp
@@ -545,7 +545,9 @@
 
 template <class IntPtrT>
 Error RawInstrProfReader<IntPtrT>::readNextRecord(NamedInstrProfRecord &Record) {
-  if (atEnd())
+  // Keep reading profiles that consist of only headers and no profile data and
+  // counters.
+  while (atEnd())
     // At this point, ValueDataStart field points to the next header.
     if (Error E = readNextHeader(getNextHeaderPos()))
       return error(std::move(E));