diff --git a/compiler/rustc_interface/src/passes.rs b/compiler/rustc_interface/src/passes.rs
index 12a6a616d64f..1684b7535e68 100644
--- a/compiler/rustc_interface/src/passes.rs
+++ b/compiler/rustc_interface/src/passes.rs
@@ -940,7 +940,7 @@ pub fn create_and_enter_global_ctxt<T, F: for<'tcx> FnOnce(TyCtxt<'tcx>) -> T>(
 
     let outputs = util::build_output_filenames(&pre_configured_attrs, sess);
 
-    let dep_type = DepsType { dep_names: rustc_query_impl::dep_kind_names() };
+    let dep_type = DepsType { dep_names: rustc_middle::dep_graph::DEP_KIND_NAMES };
     let dep_graph = setup_dep_graph(sess, crate_name, stable_crate_id, &dep_type);
 
     let cstore =
diff --git a/compiler/rustc_middle/src/dep_graph/dep_node.rs b/compiler/rustc_middle/src/dep_graph/dep_node.rs
index 3ee1db67911f..a815a03c6458 100644
--- a/compiler/rustc_middle/src/dep_graph/dep_node.rs
+++ b/compiler/rustc_middle/src/dep_graph/dep_node.rs
@@ -24,15 +24,6 @@ macro_rules! define_dep_nodes {
             ($mod:ident) => {[ $($mod::$variant()),* ]};
         }
 
-        #[macro_export]
-        macro_rules! make_dep_kind_name_array {
-            ($mod:ident) => {
-                vec! {
-                    $(*$mod::$variant().name),*
-                }
-            };
-        }
-
         /// This enum serves as an index into arrays built by `make_dep_kind_array`.
         // This enum has more than u8::MAX variants so we need some kind of multi-byte
         // encoding. The derived Encodable/Decodable uses leb128 encoding which is
@@ -68,20 +59,24 @@ macro_rules! define_dep_nodes {
             deps.len() as u16
         };
 
+        /// List containing the name of each dep kind as a static string,
+        /// indexable by `DepKind`.
+        pub const DEP_KIND_NAMES: &[&str] = &[
+            $( self::label_strs::$variant, )*
+        ];
+
         pub(super) fn dep_kind_from_label_string(label: &str) -> Result<DepKind, ()> {
             match label {
-                $(stringify!($variant) => Ok(dep_kinds::$variant),)*
+                $( self::label_strs::$variant => Ok(self::dep_kinds::$variant), )*
                 _ => Err(()),
             }
         }
 
         /// Contains variant => str representations for constructing
         /// DepNode groups for tests.
-        #[allow(dead_code, non_upper_case_globals)]
+        #[expect(non_upper_case_globals)]
         pub mod label_strs {
-           $(
-                pub const $variant: &str = stringify!($variant);
-            )*
+            $( pub const $variant: &str = stringify!($variant); )*
         }
     };
 }
diff --git a/compiler/rustc_middle/src/dep_graph/mod.rs b/compiler/rustc_middle/src/dep_graph/mod.rs
index b24ea4acc6b7..2fef7b5a9781 100644
--- a/compiler/rustc_middle/src/dep_graph/mod.rs
+++ b/compiler/rustc_middle/src/dep_graph/mod.rs
@@ -8,7 +8,9 @@ use crate::ty::{self, TyCtxt};
 #[macro_use]
 mod dep_node;
 
-pub use dep_node::{DepKind, DepNode, DepNodeExt, dep_kind_from_label, dep_kinds, label_strs};
+pub use dep_node::{
+    DEP_KIND_NAMES, DepKind, DepNode, DepNodeExt, dep_kind_from_label, dep_kinds, label_strs,
+};
 pub(crate) use dep_node::{make_compile_codegen_unit, make_compile_mono_item, make_metadata};
 pub use rustc_query_system::dep_graph::debug::{DepNodeFilter, EdgeFilter};
 pub use rustc_query_system::dep_graph::{
@@ -22,7 +24,7 @@ pub type DepKindStruct<'tcx> = rustc_query_system::dep_graph::DepKindStruct<TyCt
 
 #[derive(Clone)]
 pub struct DepsType {
-    pub dep_names: Vec<&'static str>,
+    pub dep_names: &'static [&'static str],
 }
 
 impl Deps for DepsType {
diff --git a/compiler/rustc_query_impl/src/plumbing.rs b/compiler/rustc_query_impl/src/plumbing.rs
index 67ab1114af62..d6d1dc781f3e 100644
--- a/compiler/rustc_query_impl/src/plumbing.rs
+++ b/compiler/rustc_query_impl/src/plumbing.rs
@@ -921,9 +921,5 @@ macro_rules! define_queries {
         pub fn query_callbacks<'tcx>(arena: &'tcx Arena<'tcx>) -> &'tcx [DepKindStruct<'tcx>] {
             arena.alloc_from_iter(rustc_middle::make_dep_kind_array!(query_callbacks))
         }
-
-        pub fn dep_kind_names() -> Vec<&'static str> {
-            rustc_middle::make_dep_kind_name_array!(query_callbacks)
-        }
     }
 }