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Address known thread-safety issues in `cuda.core`/look into `call_once` pattern

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In general, cuda.core has a few internal, module-level states that should be guarded by a lock. We haven't done that extensively.

Originally posted by @leofang in https://github.com/NVIDIA/cuda-python/pull/1364#discussion_r2624683212

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