[Bugfix] Skip generation config fallback for GGUF to prevent multi-process hang (#30209)

Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 4.5 <[email protected]>

Author: kitaekatt

vllm/transformers_utils/config.py

@@ -954,6 +954,13 @@ def try_get_generation_config(
     revision: str | None = None,
     config_format: str | ConfigFormat = "auto",
 ) -> GenerationConfig | None:
+    # GGUF files don't have generation_config.json - their config is embedded
+    # in the file header. Skip all filesystem lookups to avoid re-reading the
+    # memory-mapped file, which can hang in multi-process scenarios when the
+    # EngineCore process already has the file mapped.
+    if is_gguf(model):
+        return None
+
     try:
         return GenerationConfig.from_pretrained(
             model,