diff -r 5d44197c208b -r e3501546f7e4 mercurial/profiling.py
--- a/mercurial/profiling.py	Sun Aug 14 18:25:22 2016 -0700
+++ b/mercurial/profiling.py	Sun Aug 14 17:51:12 2016 -0700
@@ -143,3 +143,20 @@
                 val = val.replace('%', '%%')
                 ui.log('profile', val)
             fp.close()
+
+@contextlib.contextmanager
+def maybeprofile(ui):
+    """Profile if enabled, else do nothing.
+
+    This context manager can be used to optionally profile if profiling
+    is enabled. Otherwise, it does nothing.
+
+    The purpose of this context manager is to make calling code simpler:
+    just use a single code path for calling into code you may want to profile
+    and this function determines whether to start profiling.
+    """
+    if ui.configbool('profiling', 'enabled'):
+        with profile(ui):
+            yield
+    else:
+        yield