diff --git a/src/tools/pmempool/common.c b/src/tools/pmempool/common.c
index 177691a3e9bf29a779238632f1c434525fe0ed07..53d189bcb522af0a5e58e528f22fc50f139a4504 100644
--- a/src/tools/pmempool/common.c
+++ b/src/tools/pmempool/common.c
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 /*
- * Copyright 2014-2018, Intel Corporation
+ * Copyright 2014-2019, Intel Corporation
  *
  * Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
  * modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions
@@ -1417,7 +1417,8 @@ util_pool_clear_badblocks(const char *path, int create)
 	}
 
 	if (badblocks_clear_poolset(setp, create)) {
-		ERR("clearing bad blocks in the pool set failed -- '%s'", path);
+		outv_err("clearing bad blocks in the pool set failed -- '%s'",
+			path);
 		errno = EIO;
 		return -1;
 	}
diff --git a/src/tools/pmempool/feature.c b/src/tools/pmempool/feature.c
index f01a00ffcb73930f4dd58be7e11e3ffc6adf6d8a..418a79816cf3415fa1b497b21ba1917617ff7787 100644
--- a/src/tools/pmempool/feature.c
+++ b/src/tools/pmempool/feature.c
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 /*
- * Copyright 2018, Intel Corporation
+ * Copyright 2018-2019, Intel Corporation
  *
  * Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
  * modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions
@@ -146,7 +146,7 @@ feature_perform(struct feature_ctx *pfp)
 		printf("%d", ret);
 		return 0;
 	default:
-		ERR("Invalid option.");
+		outv_err("Invalid option.");
 		return -1;
 	}
 }
diff --git a/src/tools/pmempool/info.c b/src/tools/pmempool/info.c
index f375823d19c2eddc875e6723d2ded6e0c7f45087..24f57d28a64f864c3db0a2b8759e638f709dfd8b 100644
--- a/src/tools/pmempool/info.c
+++ b/src/tools/pmempool/info.c
@@ -385,8 +385,8 @@ parse_args(const char *appname, int argc, char *argv[],
 			} else if (strcmp(optarg, "yes") == 0) {
 				argsp->badblocks = PRINT_BAD_BLOCKS_YES;
 			} else {
-				ERR(
-					"'%s' -- invalid argument of the '--bad-blocks' option\n",
+				outv_err(
+					"'%s' -- invalid argument of the '-k/--bad-blocks' option\n",
 					optarg);
 				return -1;
 			}