    def _flash_attention_forward(
        self, query_states, key_states, value_states, attention_mask, query_length, dropout=0.0, softmax_scale=None
    ):
        """
        Calls the forward method of Flash Attention - if the input hidden states contain at least one padding token
        first unpad the input, then computes the attention scores and pad the final attention scores.

        Args:
            query_states (`torch.Tensor`):
                Input query states to be passed to Flash Attention API
            key_states (`torch.Tensor`):
                Input key states to be passed to Flash Attention API
            value_states (`torch.Tensor`):
                Input value states to be passed to Flash Attention API
            attention_mask (`torch.Tensor`):
                The padding mask - corresponds to a tensor of size `(batch_size, seq_len)` where 0 stands for the
                position of padding tokens and 1 for the position of non-padding tokens.
            dropout (`int`, *optional*):
                Attention dropout
            softmax_scale (`float`, *optional*):
                The scaling of QK^T before applying softmax. Default to 1 / sqrt(head_dim)
        """
        # Contains at least one padding token in the sequence
        causal = self.is_causal and query_length != 1
        if attention_mask is not None:
            batch_size = query_states.shape[0]
            query_states, key_states, value_states, indices_q, cu_seq_lens, max_seq_lens = self._unpad_input(
                query_states, key_states, value_states, attention_mask, query_length
            )

            cu_seqlens_q, cu_seqlens_k = cu_seq_lens
            max_seqlen_in_batch_q, max_seqlen_in_batch_k = max_seq_lens

            attn_output_unpad = flash_attn_varlen_func(
                query_states,
                key_states,
                value_states,
                cu_seqlens_q=cu_seqlens_q,
                cu_seqlens_k=cu_seqlens_k,
                max_seqlen_q=max_seqlen_in_batch_q,
                max_seqlen_k=max_seqlen_in_batch_k,
                dropout_p=dropout,
                softmax_scale=softmax_scale,
                causal=causal,
            )

            attn_output = pad_input(attn_output_unpad, indices_q, batch_size, query_length)
        else:
            attn_output = flash_attn_func(
                query_states, key_states, value_states, dropout, softmax_scale=softmax_scale, causal=causal
            )

        return attn_output
Calls the forward method of Flash Attention - if the input hidden states contain at least one padding token
first unpad the input, then computes the attention scores and pad the final attention scores.

Args:
query_states (`torch.Tensor`):
Input query states to be passed to Flash Attention API
key_states (`torch.Tensor`):
Input key states to be passed to Flash Attention API
value_states (`torch.Tensor`):
Input value states to be passed to Flash Attention API
attention_mask (`torch.Tensor`):
The padding mask - corresponds to a tensor of size `(batch_size, seq_len)` where 0 stands for the
position of padding tokens and 1 for the position of non-padding tokens.
dropout (`int`, *optional*):
Attention dropout
softmax_scale (`float`, *optional*):
The scaling of QK^T before applying softmax. Default to 1 / sqrt(head_dim)
projects/llava_sam2/hf/models/modeling_internlm2.py