diff --git a/openmp/runtime/src/i18n/en_US.txt b/openmp/runtime/src/i18n/en_US.txt
index fb7452b8bf06b..228bcdb25a8ea 100644
--- a/openmp/runtime/src/i18n/en_US.txt
+++ b/openmp/runtime/src/i18n/en_US.txt
@@ -479,6 +479,7 @@ AffHWSubsetAttrInvalid       "KMP_HW_SUBSET ignored: %1$s: attribute value %2$s
 AffHWSubsetAllFiltered       "KMP_HW_SUBSET ignored: all hardware resources would be filtered, please reduce the filter."
 AffHWSubsetAttrsNonHybrid    "KMP_HW_SUBSET ignored: Too many attributes specified. This machine is not a hybrid architecutre."
 AffHWSubsetIgnoringAttr      "KMP_HW_SUBSET: ignoring %1$s attribute. This machine is not a hybrid architecutre."
+TargetMemNotAvailable        "Target memory not available, will use default allocator."
 
 # --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 -*- HINTS -*-
diff --git a/openmp/runtime/src/kmp_alloc.cpp b/openmp/runtime/src/kmp_alloc.cpp
index bf1d0645856b3..fb1b0eb5f0fe5 100644
--- a/openmp/runtime/src/kmp_alloc.cpp
+++ b/openmp/runtime/src/kmp_alloc.cpp
@@ -1588,8 +1588,10 @@ void *__kmp_alloc(int gtid, size_t algn, size_t size,
         ptr = kmp_target_alloc_shared(size, device);
       else // allocator == llvm_omp_target_device_mem_alloc
         ptr = kmp_target_alloc_device(size, device);
+      return ptr;
+    } else {
+      KMP_INFORM(TargetMemNotAvailable);
     }
-    return ptr;
   }
 
   if (allocator >= kmp_max_mem_alloc && KMP_IS_TARGET_MEM_SPACE(al->memspace)) {
@@ -1602,8 +1604,10 @@ void *__kmp_alloc(int gtid, size_t algn, size_t size,
         ptr = kmp_target_alloc_shared(size, device);
       else // al->memspace == llvm_omp_target_device_mem_space
         ptr = kmp_target_alloc_device(size, device);
+      return ptr;
+    } else {
+      KMP_INFORM(TargetMemNotAvailable);
     }
-    return ptr;
   }
 
   if (__kmp_memkind_available) {