fix(mla): apply MTP causal mask in BF16/FP16 decode kernel

[zcnrex]

Problem

The BF16/FP16 MLA decode kernel (BlackwellMultiHeadLatentAttentionForwardFP16) applies only a plain K-bound mask (col >= K) and omits the per-row spec-decoding (MTP) causal bound that the FP8 kernel already implements. For seq_len_q > 1 (MTP / spec-decode), every query row attends to up to seq_len_q - 1 future keys it should not see → wrong output, increasingly so at short context (error ≈ (seq_len_q-1)/K).

The kernel doesn't even accept is_causal — the wrapper only wires it for the fp8 path — so causal_mask=True is a silent no-op for bf16.

Concretely (B200, h=16, bs=10, bf16, vs an fp32 torch MTP reference):

q	seq	before (this kernel)	reference
8	2048	29.74 dB SNR, max_abs 2.06e-1	54.84 dB
8	50000	52.64 dB	55.44 dB

(The FP8 kernel is correct here — only fp16/bf16 was affected.)

Fix

Port the FP8 kernel's causal machinery (mla_decode_fp8.py) into the fp16 kernel, keeping the same conventions:

• __init__: add is_causal, num_heads, seq_len_q.
• compute(): replace the single-K-bound-tile loop with the is_causal-gated 3-phase mask_tile_count loop (unmasked bulk → masked intermediate → masked final), covering the causal region's tile-boundary-crossing case.
• softmax() (both sm_100 and sm_103 branches): replace col >= K with the per-row k_bound = K - (seq_len_q - 1) + q_tok (fold-aware q_tok), gated by is_causal (non-causal falls back to the plain K-bound). Rename the flag is_last_tile → apply_mask to match fp8.
• Wrapper: wire is_causal/num_heads/seq_len_q through for the fp16 path too (previously fp8-only). DCP (cp_world) stays fp8-only.

Validation

B200, h=16, bs=10, bf16, vs fp32 torch MTP reference — bf16 output is now bit-identical to the (correct) reference at both q=4 and q=8:

q	seq	after	max_abs
8	2048	54.84 dB	2.043e-3
8	50000	55.44 dB	1.028e-3
4	2048	54.85 dB	3.425e-3
4	50000	55.44 dB	9.691e-4

q_len=1 (where MTP causal ≡ plain K-bound) is unaffected.

Note: independent of, and complementary to, the LSE-guard fix (the bf16 default return_lse=False path also needs that guard to run without crashing). Correctness here was validated on a build carrying both fixes.

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