Revert "Pin torch to 2.7.1 on CircleCI for now" + Final fix for too long with no output (#40201)

* Revert "Pin torch to 2.7.1 on CircleCI for now (#40174)"

This reverts commit 31b6e6e1da.

* fix

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Co-authored-by: ydshieh <ydshieh@users.noreply.github.com>

.circleci/create_circleci_config.py

@@ -110,6 +110,8 @@ class CircleCIJob:
             print(f"Using {self.docker_image} docker image")
         if self.install_steps is None:
             self.install_steps = ["uv pip install ."]
+        # Use a custom patched pytest to force exit the process at the end, to avoid `Too long with no output (exceeded 10m0s): context deadline exceeded`
+        self.install_steps.append("uv pip install git+https://github.com/ydshieh/pytest.git@8.4.1-ydshieh")
         if self.pytest_options is None:
             self.pytest_options = {}
         if isinstance(self.tests_to_run, str):