diff --git a/compiler-rt/lib/profile/InstrProfiling.h b/compiler-rt/lib/profile/InstrProfiling.h
--- a/compiler-rt/lib/profile/InstrProfiling.h
+++ b/compiler-rt/lib/profile/InstrProfiling.h
@@ -125,7 +125,7 @@
 /*!
  * \brief this is a wrapper interface to \c __llvm_profile_write_file.
  * After this interface is invoked, a arleady dumped flag will be set
- * so that profile won't be dumped again during program exit. 
+ * so that profile won't be dumped again during program exit.
  * Invocation of interface __llvm_profile_reset_counters will clear
  * the flag. This interface is designed to be used to collect profile
  * data from user selected hot regions. The use model is
@@ -191,6 +191,14 @@
 uint64_t __llvm_profile_get_data_size(const __llvm_profile_data *Begin,
                                       const __llvm_profile_data *End);
 
+/*!
+ * \brief Set the flag that profile data has been dumped to the file.
+ * This is useful for users to disable dumping profile data to the file for
+ * certain processes in case the processes don't have permission to write to
+ * the disks, and trying to do so would result in side effects such as crashes.
+ */
+void __llvm_profile_set_dumped();
+
 /*!
  * This variable is defined in InstrProfilingRuntime.cc as a hidden
  * symbol. Its main purpose is to enable profile runtime user to
diff --git a/compiler-rt/lib/profile/InstrProfiling.c b/compiler-rt/lib/profile/InstrProfiling.c
--- a/compiler-rt/lib/profile/InstrProfiling.c
+++ b/compiler-rt/lib/profile/InstrProfiling.c
@@ -35,6 +35,10 @@
   ProfileDumped = 1;
 }
 
+COMPILER_RT_VISIBILITY void __llvm_profile_set_dumped() {
+  lprofSetProfileDumped();
+}
+
 /* Return the number of bytes needed to add to SizeInBytes to make it
  *   the result a multiple of 8.
  */