[Bugfix] Avoid FlashAttention 3 with batch invariance on Hopper

[dumko2001]

Purpose

VLLM_BATCH_INVARIANT=1 still selected FlashAttention 3 on Hopper. That
breaks the determinism guarantee reported in #47069. Downgrade FA3 to FA2
when batch invariance is enabled on SM90, including an explicit FA3 request.
The FlashAttention MLA backends run FA3 on Hopper as well, so they now report
no batch-invariance support and the selector falls back to an invariant
backend.

Fixes #47069

Related work: I searched open and closed PR references for #47069 and found no
overlapping PR. AI assistance was used; I reviewed the changed code and the
validation results.

Test Plan

uv tool run ruff check repro/gpu_validate_fa3_batch_invariant.py
uv run --no-project python -m py_compile \
  repro/gpu_validate_fa3_batch_invariant.py
python repro/gpu_validate_fa3_batch_invariant.py

The GPU validation ran on an H100 SXM with CUDA 13.0 and the vLLM wheel from
commit 1ff942965. The script was run once with the stock wheel and once
after overlaying:

vllm/v1/attention/backends/fa_utils.py

Added a CPU unit test for the batch-invariant MLA backend gate. Its follow-up
commit stubs the CUDA extension modules so the selection check runs during
CPU-only collection.

Test Result

Unpatched:

FA_UTILS_VARIANT: UNPATCHED
FA_VERSION_BATCH_INVARIANT: 3

Patched:

FA_UTILS_VARIANT: PATCHED
FA_VERSION_BATCH_INVARIANT: 2
PASS: patched Hopper selection downgrades FA3 to FA2

The patched run also emitted the expected Hopper batch-invariance downgrade
warning. The varlen probe was not counted as a result. The first run skipped
it because the call used the wrong positional cu-seqlens signature; the probe
now passes the cu-seqlens as tensor keyword arguments.

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