Add vLLM v0.18.1 source tree with KV transfer abort fix

third_party/vllm/ now tracked in git for direct patch management.
Based on vLLM v0.18.1 release with one patch applied:

  vllm/v1/core/sched/scheduler.py:
    Replace fatal assert with graceful skip when KV transfer callback
    arrives for an already-aborted request during PD disaggregated serving.

Future vLLM modifications should be made directly in third_party/vllm/
and committed normally. The patches/ directory is kept as documentation
of what changed from upstream.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

third_party/vllm/.buildkite/hardware_tests/ascend_npu.yaml

@@ -0,0 +1,10 @@
+group: Hardware
+depends_on: ~
+steps:
+  - label: "Ascend NPU Test"
+    soft_fail: true
+    timeout_in_minutes: 20
+    no_plugin: true
+    device: ascend_npu
+    commands: 
+    - bash .buildkite/scripts/hardware_ci/run-npu-test.sh