diff --git a/vllm/v1/attention/backends/mla/rocm_aiter_mla.py b/vllm/v1/attention/backends/mla/rocm_aiter_mla.py
index 00a0a77a1c2f..342b7f9ad900 100644
--- a/vllm/v1/attention/backends/mla/rocm_aiter_mla.py
+++ b/vllm/v1/attention/backends/mla/rocm_aiter_mla.py
@@ -86,6 +86,13 @@ def __init__(
         # TODO: we can disambiguate between decode and mixed-prefill decode here
         # so we can only use the persistent buffer if a cudagraph is actually
         # being used.
+
+        # paged_kv_last_page_len is always 1s (kernel block size is always 1),
+        # so we create it once and reuse slices in both eager and cudagraph modes.
+        self.paged_kv_last_page_len = torch.ones(
+            max_num_reqs, dtype=torch.int32, device=device
+        )
+
         if self.compilation_config.cudagraph_mode.has_full_cudagraphs():
             self.paged_kv_indptr = torch.zeros(
                 max_num_reqs + 1, dtype=torch.int32, device=device
@@ -93,9 +100,6 @@ def __init__(
             self.paged_kv_indices = torch.zeros(
                 max_num_pages, dtype=torch.int32, device=device
             )
-            self.paged_kv_last_page_len = torch.zeros(
-                max_num_reqs, dtype=torch.int32, device=device
-            )
 
             self.qo_indptr = torch.arange(
                 0, max_num_reqs + 1, dtype=torch.int32, device=device
@@ -120,7 +124,9 @@ def _build_decode(
         ).unsqueeze(0) < seq_lens_device.unsqueeze(1)
         paged_kv_indices = block_table_tensor[mask]
 
-        paged_kv_last_page_len = torch.where(seq_lens_device == 0, 1, seq_lens_device)
+        # kernel block size is always 1, so each page has exactly 1 token.
+        # last_page_len is always 1 - just slice the pre-initialized buffer.
+        paged_kv_last_page_len = self.paged_kv_last_page_len[:num_reqs]
 
         paged_kv_indptr = torch.cat(
             [
@@ -144,11 +150,8 @@ def _build_decode(
             self.paged_kv_indptr[1 + num_reqs :].fill_(paged_kv_indptr[-1])
             paged_kv_indptr = self.paged_kv_indptr[: 1 + num_reqs]
 
-            self.paged_kv_last_page_len[:num_reqs].copy_(
-                paged_kv_last_page_len, non_blocking=True
-            )
-            self.paged_kv_last_page_len[num_reqs:].fill_(1)
-            paged_kv_last_page_len = self.paged_kv_last_page_len[:num_reqs]
+            # paged_kv_last_page_len already uses the pre-initialized buffer slice
+            # (set above), so no copy needed - buffer is always 1s.
 
             qo_indptr = self.qo_indptr[: 1 + num_reqs]