diff --git a/kernel/rcu/refscale.c b/kernel/rcu/refscale.c
index d8ed1ca3adc0..c47685634640 100644
--- a/kernel/rcu/refscale.c
+++ b/kernel/rcu/refscale.c
@@ -58,8 +58,7 @@ do {											\
 	}										\
 } while (0)
 
-#define VERBOSE_SCALEOUT_ERRSTRING(s, x...) \
-	do { if (verbose) pr_alert("%s" SCALE_FLAG "!!! " s, scale_type, ## x); } while (0)
+#define SCALEOUT_ERRSTRING(s, x...) pr_alert("%s" SCALE_FLAG "!!! " s, scale_type, ## x)
 
 MODULE_LICENSE("GPL");
 MODULE_AUTHOR("Joel Fernandes (Google) <joel@joelfernandes.org>");
@@ -651,7 +650,7 @@ static int main_func(void *arg)
 	result_avg = kzalloc(nruns * sizeof(*result_avg), GFP_KERNEL);
 	buf = kzalloc(800 + 64, GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (!result_avg || !buf) {
-		VERBOSE_SCALEOUT_ERRSTRING("out of memory");
+		SCALEOUT_ERRSTRING("out of memory");
 		goto oom_exit;
 	}
 	if (holdoff)
@@ -837,7 +836,7 @@ ref_scale_init(void)
 	reader_tasks = kcalloc(nreaders, sizeof(reader_tasks[0]),
 			       GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (!reader_tasks) {
-		VERBOSE_SCALEOUT_ERRSTRING("out of memory");
+		SCALEOUT_ERRSTRING("out of memory");
 		firsterr = -ENOMEM;
 		goto unwind;
 	}